I can’t say its the most captivating document ever produced (unless you’ve got a thing for regulatory practices and safety recommendations), but it is an important document nonetheless: yesterday, the newly renamed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released its “Final Report Regarding the Causes of the April 20,2010 Macondo Well Blowout.” . . . → Read More: BOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater Horizon
By Kevin Zelnio, on  September 7th, 2011 Books/Media, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Oil Spills BP, British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, documentary, Macondo, Oil Spill, Pretty Slick One year of the BP oil spill ecological catastrophe. I would really like to see this documentary. Pretty Slick movie clips (BP Gulf oil spill) from james fox on Vimeo. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}One year of the BP oil spill ecological catastrophe. I would really like to see this documentary. Pretty Slick movie clips (BP Gulf oil spill) from james fox on Vimeo….
By Kevin Zelnio, on  August 31st, 2011 Conservation & Environment, Deep Sea Music, Ecology, Industry & Government, Oil Spills BP, British Petroleum, bubble up, Deepwater Horizon, Julian Mock, Nick Santoro, Oil Spill Lyrics to Bubble Up! are here. BUBBLE UP is a song dedicated to the current state of the world, with music by julian mock and lyrics by nick santoro. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Lyrics to Bubble Up! are here. BUBBLE UP is a song dedicated to the current state of the world, with music by . . . → Read More: Bubble Up: A Deepwater Horizon Disaster Song
Unlike the blown out Macondo well, scientific data surrounding last year’s oil spill has been coming out in a painfully slow trickle. As the oil started flowing, scientists soon realized the unprecedented opportunities arising from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Samples collected at the gushing wellhead are now providing new insight into the transport and ultimate . . . → Read More: CSI Macondo: Fingerprinting the oil that got away
By Dr. M, on  July 18th, 2011 Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Oil Spills, Uncategorized, Weather anoxia, deadzone, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia, Mississippi River, oxygen, rainfall You know that oxygen-less zone that chokes life and forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico at the base of the Mississippi? Currently its about 3,300 square miles, or roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Over the last 50 years, humans tripled the nitrogen levels in Gulf. Nitrogen is often . . . → Read More: 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever
By Dr. M, on  July 10th, 2011 Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills conservation, Dumping, fishing, geosequestration, iron fertilization, IUCN, mining, Oil Spill, pollution, tuna Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my fish in oil please. PLoS One published an article by Fodrie and Heck concluding that immediate catastrophic loss of fish was avoided in the Gulf oil spill. They also found . . . → Read More: Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with NOAA. If you’ve been to their homepage lately, you’ll notice that the key Deepwater Horizon links have been inserted into a nice little banner across the top of the site. The historic archive! Restoration Projects! Seafood Safety! I’d like to think that Deep-sea News had something to . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon: Resources and Restoration
If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened, where would the oil have gone? This short animation by Chris Harmon gives a sense of the vast scale of our oil-based economy. Best of all, he cites his sources so you can check out the numbers yourself. (Via Ayana J.) Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo. Broadcast . . . → Read More: If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened…
Skimmed: Oil skimmed off surface. Captured: Oil captured before escaping into the sea. Burned: 400 burning of concentrated slicks moving barrels from water to air. COREXIT Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" by 1.8 million gallos of COREXIT. Deep-Sea Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" at 1500 meteres through a narrow pipe. Evaporated or Dissolved: Oil that disolved in to Gulf . . . → Read More: Pardon Me If I Don’t Start Celebrating
One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Nearly 5 million barrels of oil were spilled, making the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe the biggest spill in world history. The web is filled with resources telling stories and . . . → Read More: One year after the oil started
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