Visualize the oil spill in your backyard,...

This page let's you look at the area the oil spill would cover if it were placed over top of your current location.

Type in your city and state in the search box, then click on "Move The Spill".

www.Ifitwasmyhome.com

Oil Spill Dispersent Ingredients

Here's a link to an EPA list of the ingredients in the chemical dispersants being used in the Gulf oil spill.


http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/dispersants.html#list

Elephant News

Here's what happens when an ecolodge is built in the middle of a trail used by elephants.

http://www.all-creatures.org/stories/a-elephantson.html

Listen to my Audio Essay for May

http://www.wvpubcast.org/insideapp.aspx

You can hear my MAY essay at the 39:04 mark of the MAY 29 edition of West Virginia Public Radio's Inside Appalachia.

Space

Tour the International Space Station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=H8rHarp1GEE

To Report a Metal Bird Band

If you find a bird, dead or alive, with a metal band on one of its legs, visit the web site below and follow directions. You will need the number on the band. The process takes only a few minutes, and you will learn the identity of the bird and where and when it was banded.


http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/homepage/call800.htm

Great Weather Sites

The Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com/

National Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

NOAA Weather: http://www.noaa.gov/wx.html


http://www.accuweather.com/

http://www.wunderground.com/