Deception on the flow rate, negligence in pressure tests, misinterpretation of data, a failure to consult: a look at the charges against BP officials indicted in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and spewed five million barrels? worth of oil into the gulf.
A theory: did the Virginia attorney general?s legal standoff with the University of Virginia over a climate scientist?s records help precipitate the trustees? ouster of the university?s president? (The firing was ultimately reversed.) [The Guardian]
Biologists assembling an ambitious register of sea life say that a third of the world?s marine species are still unknown to science. [The Daily Mail]
Fifteen solar-powered cars roll out of an old salt mine as the second annual Solar Challenge begins in the Atacama desert in Chile. They will travel over 800 miles through the world?s driest desert expanse. [Agence France-Presse]
In the wild, the endangered panda dwells only in China, but its earliest known relative in the fossil record lived in Spain, paleontologists report. [CNN]
Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/on-our-radar-the-bp-indictments/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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