Crews prepare to raise failed blowout preventer (AP)
Vessels work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon accident off the shore of Louisiana in August 2010. British oil giant BP said that the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has cost about eight billion dollars (6.2 billions euros) so far.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AP - A vessel has latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation so crews ca...

BP oil spill costs hit $8 billion as ends rig probe (Reuters)
Reuters - BP Plc said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $...

BP oil spill costs surge to $8 bln (AFP)
Vessels work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon accident off the shore of Louisiana in August 2010. British oil giant BP said that the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster has cost about eight billion dollars (6.2 billions euros) so far.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - British oil giant BP revealed Friday that the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster...

U.S. reiterates commitment to 2020 climate goal (Reuters)
Reuters - The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas ...

Oil spill will not impact Florida tourism: poll (Reuters)
U.S. First lady Michelle Obama spreads her arms as she walks on the shoreline with Dan Rowe of the Bay County Tourism Development Council in Panama City Beach, Florida July 12, 2010. REUTERS/Colin HackleyReuters - The BP oil spill that spewed millions of barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico is unlike...

BP says offshore oil limits could hurt payouts in spill (AFP)
The sun sets behind two under construction offshore oil platform rigs in Port Fourchon, Louisiana in June 2010. Proposed US limits on offshore oil drilling could hurt BP's ability to pay for damages stemming from the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a company executive said in an interview Friday.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - Proposed US limits on offshore oil drilling could hurt BP's ability to pay for damages stem...

Feds launch investigation of Gulf platform fire (AP)
AP - The agency that oversees offshore drilling will investigate the fire on an oil platform in t...

Japan whale meat case echoes apartheid: Greenpeace chief (AFP)
Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo speaks to the press with Greenpeace Japan member Junichi Sato beside him, in Tokyo, on September 3. Two japanese activists, includung Sato, are to face possible jail terms for stealing a box of whale meat in a trial the environmental group says will test the country's limits on political activism.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo on Friday likened Japan's treatment of two of its anti-whaling...

Thai firm rejects Indonesian oil spill cash claim (AFP)
World Wildlife Fund-issued photo shows a man looking at a residue left by the Montara oil rig leak in the pristine Timor Sea. The Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over the major oil spill off Australia's north which campaigners say hit the livelihoods of thousands of poor fishermen.(AFP/HO/WWF/File/Kara Burns)AFP - A Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over...

No sign of oil after Gulf platform fire: Coast Guard (Reuters)
In this image courtesy of KATC3 news channel in Lafayette, Louisiana, 13 workers from an offshore oil platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the Louisiana coast, wait for rescue after they jumped to the sea.(AFP/KATC3)Reuters - An oil and gas platform operated by Mariner Energy burst into flames in the Gulf of Mex...

China farmers under siege from wild boar invasion (AFP)
Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars, who are destroying crops and upsetting the ecological balance, state media said on Friday. Wild boar numbers have risen to an estimated 150,000 in Zhejiang province, compared to about 29,000 a decade ago, the China Daily said.(AFP/File/Dieter Nagl)AFP - Farmers in eastern China are grappling with an explosion in the population of wild boars, w...

African livelihoods at risk as species threatened: IUCN (AFP)
Ugandan fishermen collect fish from a net in Kabukanga on Rukwanzi Island, Uganda. Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday.(AFP/File/Walter Astrada)AFP - Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African ...

EPA to issue more rules in climate fight (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will roll out more regulations on greenhouse g...

Mariner Energy oil rig fire extinguished, no sign of oil spill in Gulf (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - A fire on an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has been...

Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued (AP)
Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disast...