We can end up consuming too much mercury when eating fish contaminated with it. We need to be aware of what bodies of water have mercury issues, that way we know which fish are safe to consume and how much. The Oklahoma Department of...
We can end up consuming too much mercury when eating fish contaminated with it. We need to be aware of what bodies of water have mercury issues, that way we know which fish are safe to consume and how much. The Oklahoma Department of...
The Moore tornado and the other tornadoes that hit Oklahoma during this latest outbreak, are heartbreaking. If you can help there are a lot of great ways to donate. While the Moore tornado is getting a lot of attention Little Axe, Bethel Acres, Shawnee...
Parts of the state have been seeing a lot of rainfall lately. As of the last drought report, 17.40 percent of the state is currently not under drought conditions. This is up 0.08 percent from last week. Wednesday night and yesterday the state saw...
There is more good news this week for the drought. As of Tuesday, 28 percent of Oklahoma had no drought conditions! Only around five percent of the state is still in the exceptional drought category. This is the best that category has seen since...
Early this morning earthquakes began to rattle the state. Preliminary data shows, the first was a 3.0-magnitude quake located near Chandler, followed by a 4.3 near Luther, 2.9 near Boley, 3.3 near Luther, and a 4.2 near Luther. The quakes were felt from the...
This morning near Allen, Oklahoma, Nancy Zorn, 79, from Warr Acres, using a bike-lock locked herself to a piece of machinery halting construction on the Keystone XL pipeline. This comes after an estimated 80,000 gallons of Tar Sands oil has leaked into a neighborhood in...
General Electric (GE) says it is going to build a $110 million research center in the Oklahoma City area. The research center will study gas and oil extraction for hard-to-reach oil and gas. These technologies will include hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling. “In...
Research released yesterday written by University of Oklahoma seismologist Katie Keranen, co-written with Columbia University’s Heather Savage and Geoffrey Abers, and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Elizabeth Cochran, gives more evidence that the state’s largest-recorded earthquake, a magnitude 5.7 quake on Nov. 6, 2011, was triggered...
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows more improvement for Oklahoma. Part of eastern Oklahoma has gone from severe drought status to moderate. The whole state is still in at least a moderate drought so we still have a long way to go but...
Beth Terry the acclaimed author of Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too and the blog My Plastic-Free Life, will be speaking in Tulsa on April 2nd. The event is being put on by Booksmart Tulsa, the University of...
