Planet satellite image captures slick from 33,000 gallon oil spill at LOOP import terminal off Louisiana. AIS tracking data indicates the last vessel to use the terminal before the spill was a supertanker (Marlin Sardinia) that came from and returned to Venezuela.

Zombie facilities from the fracking boom are another pollution risk. Latest example: www.pennlive.com/news/2025/08...

Celebrating the recovery of a river: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

The SkyTruth tech team is working to solve an urgent climate problem: detecting plumes of methane from offshore oil platforms and other facilities: skytruth.org/2025/08/brea...

The Shadow Fleet Crisis: highlighting the increasing maritime security and environmental threat posed by the growing "dark fleet" of oil tankers at sea: sevenseasmedia.org/shadow-fleet... More on SkyTruth's related work: skytruth.org/section/brin...

Glad to see NISAR finally get off the ground. And - at last! - the US has a civilian radar satellite in orbit once again, in partnership with India. It's been a long time since Seasat (disco inferno, anyone?): earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15461...

This is why SkyTruth built Cerulean to automatically detect oil pollution and name those responsible: the first critical step toward finally bringing an end to intentional oil pollution at sea. www.theguardian.com/business/202... Try out Cerulean: skytruth.org/cerulean/

Fires raging near the Grand Canyon: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15454...

My first job was in PA, monitoring (taxpayer-funded!) cleanup efforts at abandoned, unplugged oil and gas wells that regularly blurped up waxy, oily produced water and methane. This is a national problem, and the more we drill, the bigger this problem is going to get: www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...

Well 59 blowout on the Gulf coast: This photo provided by USCG shows a response boat spraying something into the blowout plume on April 30. There is no fire to extinguish, so I wonder if they are spraying chemical dispersants on the plume. www.dvidshub.net/image/900603...

"Zombie" wells = ticking time bombs. Did one just go off in the Gulf? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Nice to see SkyTruth's antipollution tool Cerulean getting some good exposure during the Our Ocean Conference: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/offshor...

I share some thoughts as the 10th annual Our Ocean conference gets underway in Busan, with a focus on applying digital tech to achieve sustainability - www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/seei...

I love the landscape and geology of Wyoming, and the spectacular satellite imagery it produces. And, Chugwater Formation! Can't beat it. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15417...

Earth Day. Every day. Cherish it, celebrate it, protect it fiercely. Especially now. -- Photo credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman. Many more stunning images of our beautiful home at spaceplace.nasa.gov/gallery-eart...

How about some inspiration in these troubled times? www.goldmanprize.org/current-winn...

If money = speech (looking at you, SCOTUS), then doesn't private philanthropy has the right to spend their money however they see fit (with exceptions for *legitimate* national security concerns)? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I love a great geology pic from space! earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15406...

Offloading from industry the burden of dealing with their pollution and the increasing damages caused by climate change, and dumping that growing burden on the shoulders of taxpayers: news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/congres...

It's insulting for an industry that is making billions of dollars in profits every year to claim remediation would be "too costly." You made this mess. You clean it up. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/t...

Hi-res SkySat image showing Stena Immaculate and a tugboat/workboat, Brage Viking. No signs of fire or oil spill.

Sentinel-1 and -2 satellite images taken yesterday of Stena Immaculate show no signs of oil slick around the stricken tanker. Caveat: it was a high-wind day (~40km/hr) which would disperse a slick and make it difficult to detect on satellite imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a...

🚨New Features Alert: MMSI/Vessel Flag Search, Tags, Feature Requests 🚨 You can now search for vessels within Cerulean using the MMSI number or vessel flag, suggest new tags, and use our “user request portal” to request feature updates! Learn more about each update below 🧵

(Apologies for ending the year on a low note) www.propublica.org/article/oil-...

Great imagery from NASA of the atmospheric river that hit California last month: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/worldvi...

We've got top-notch interns doing serious work at SkyTruth! Check out Alana's blog post about using LiDAR to map tree canopy throughout the region affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. skytruth.org/2024/12/exte...