Part II: How toxic are dispersants? This, I suppose, is the million-dollar question. The EPA has continually insisted that the actual dispersants is less toxic…
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Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains.
When I don’t know enough about a subject, I tend to Google and data-mine—obsessively. So it has become with dispersants. In the wake of oil…
View More Dispersants! A multi-part series to enlighten your brains.Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. The very oil plume both predicted by models published in…
View More Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the GulfOh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??
As you know, we’ve completely solved the Gulf oil spill and we can all go back to dreaming about puppies and sunshine (note sarcasm). Not…
View More Oh, snap! You mean 70% of oil is still THERE??Everything Poops
This is of course meant as an educational offering, you know… us being a top science blog and all… Everything Poops by Kevin Zelnio Lyrics…
View More Everything Poops“Recycled Island” not a cure for plastic trash in ocean
As some of you may know, my graduate research is on plastic debris in the North Pacific Central Gyre. While I am deeply disturbed by…
View More “Recycled Island” not a cure for plastic trash in ocean“Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birds
Don’t be fooled by that fluffy, optimistic statistic you’re hearing all over the news this morning. The government is proclaiming that a whopping 75% of…
View More “Eliminated” oil is actually just invisible, and not stuck to birdsLinkiteuthis dux
The latest Circus of the Spineless (edition #53! zOMG!) is up at Birder’s Lounge. Amber has provided a wonderful assortment of spineless specialties on the…
View More Linkiteuthis duxIs BP buying silence?
From NPR… For months now, local scientists have been out on Gulf waters, advising the cleanup and measuring the damage. But there is growing concern…
View More Is BP buying silence?The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm…
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