“Like Looking into the Face of the Devil” – National Geographic Oil Spill Special
Gulf Oil Spill airs on NGC Thursday, May 27 at 10PM ET/PT National Geographic Channel is airing what promises to be an epic recount of…
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Oil Spill Update
Today marks the 1 month anniversary since the blowout, explosion, and the death of 11 on Deepwater Horizon drill rig. The First Brown Pelican covered…
Oil Spill Update for Thurs, May 13
A bit of news, a bit of analysis, and lots of videos for you today. News Obama has sent legislation to Congress in response to…
Oil Spill Update for Wed., May 12
Rick MacPherson succinctly sums up the Congressional hearings on the oil spill. As with most disasters, cascading human and technical failures led to the blowout.…
Oil Spill Update for Monday, May 10
Here is your oil spill update for Monday, May 10th. Stopping the Flow The giant dome didn’t work, due to the formation of ice-like methane…
Oilmageddon Update May 7
A few days Chris Rowan of the fabulous geology blog Highly Allochthonous wrote a good post on the risky business of drilling for oil. In…
Oil Spill Update: Thursday, May 6
Here is your oil spill update for Thursday, May 6th. Stopping the Flow Yesterday, crews capped one of the three leaks in the Gulf of…
The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: A Timeline
I spent a summer as an undergraduate in Port Fourchon, Louisiana conducting field work. Some of my fondest memories surround that summer I spent in…
Day 1,825
5 years ago today, an explosion in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico lead to one of the worst human-induced environmental disasters in history.…
Given the choice, corals would prefer oil to dispersant
Just near 6 million liters of oil spilled out of Macondo well in 2010, about 6 supertankers worth of oil. The ramifications of the oil…