Science Jun 14 NOAA Launches ‘One Stop Shop’ for Oil Spill Data The federal government Monday released what it called "a one-stop shop for detailed near-real-time information about the response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill" in an effort to get updates out the range of groups affected by the…
Science Jun 08 Signs of Higher Flow Rate: BP Captures 14,800 Barrels of Oil BP reported this morning that on Monday it captured approximately 14,800 barrels of oil from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, where crude has been flowing since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank on April 22. As we've…
Nation May 28 Adm. Allen: Gulf Oil Leak Suppressed For Now; Leak Meter Paused As of 8 AM today, we've frozen our Gulf Leak Meter, based on reports that the flow of oil is being held back. "They have been able to push the hydrocarbons, or the oil, down with the mud," Coast…
Science May 17 How Much Difference Do 2,000 Barrels a Day Make for Containment Efforts? With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage. Updated May 18, 4:30 p.m. | BP…
Science May 12 New Video, Images Show Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak in Dismal Detail British Petroleum has released new video and images of one of the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. We aired a clip on Wednesday's PBS Newshour and our source was this video via the Joint Information Center.
Science May 09 How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? View ticker with live video feed. Last updated 11 a.m. ET on May 27. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do have…
Science Apr 19 O’Brien of ‘This Week In Space’ on Obama Space ‘Revolution,’ Privatization Miles O'Brien made his second visit to NewsHour Plus to talk about the impact of President Barack Obama's speech to NASA and where the space agency's future may lead. The first NASA budget released by the administration appeared to…
Politics Apr 09 Looking Back on Stevens’ 34 Years on the Supreme Court In almost 35 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has handed down, and dissented from, some of the biggest legal decisions of the last generation. Stevens began his long tenure as one of the court's moderates,…
Science Mar 29 NewsHour Plus ‘This Week In Space’ Talk Mars and Your Ticket to the Stars Recent developments have moved us a bit closer to "space (flight) for the rest of us," Miles O'Brien of 'This Week In Space' tells us in his first visit to NewsHour Plus. O'Brien catches us up on…