From Science Daily… Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately…
View More Oil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At RiskTag: Gulf of Mexico
Oil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt II
“No matter what took place & why it happened, the oil spill in the Gulf belongs to all of us”-Sheril Kirshenbaum BP manges to completely…
View More Oil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt IIOil Spill Update: May 31st 2010
The newest update is that British Petroleum’s ‘top kill’ (animation, description from engineers) and ‘junk shot’ will join ‘top hat’ in the list of failed…
View More Oil Spill Update: May 31st 2010“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…
View More “Like Looking into the Face of the Devil” – National Geographic Oil Spill SpecialOil Spill Update: May 24, 2010
Another few days and another few million gallons. Oil seeps 12 miles into Louisiana marshes and pelicans are coated in crude. The U.S. officially declares…
View More Oil Spill Update: May 24, 2010And the heavy sludge arrives
From CBS… It may be the most disturbing site yet: the first heavy sludge now oozing into the marshes of Louisiana as the slick continues…
View More And the heavy sludge arrivesShould We Even Bother With Offshore Oil? A Look at the Numbers
One doesn’t need to look very far to find someone pondering the future of offshore drilling. The recent catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is…
View More Should We Even Bother With Offshore Oil? A Look at the NumbersHow the Oil Spill Affects Fisheries: Interview with Dr. Dave Kerstetter
To understand how the oil spill affects the fisheries and fishing communities, I turned to Dr. Dave Kerstetter, a research scientist at Nova Southeastern University’s…
View More How the Oil Spill Affects Fisheries: Interview with Dr. Dave KerstetterThe 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…
View More The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: A TimelineRepost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is…
View More Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps