News tagged with gulf of mexico
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Trend continues with second hottest July on record
(AP) -- The Earth continues to feel the heat. Last month was the second warmest July on record, and so far 2010 remains on track to be the hottest year.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2010 |
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Sugar battles oil spills
The environment has often suffered from the catastrophic effects of an oil spill, the most recent example being the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The search for ways to remove oil from polluted water is ...
Aug 12, 2010 |
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Study suggests dinosaurs killed off by more than one asteroid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs, along with over half of other species, became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period about 65.5 million years ago, and many scientists believe this was due to a single impact ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds
Bad news for the Gulf of Mexico: a study released in late December sheds new light on the toxicity of oil in aquatic environments, and shows that environmental impact studies currently in use may be inadequate. The report ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
(AP) -- Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated ...
Feb 20, 2011 |
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Study confirms oil from Deepwater Horizon disaster entered food chain in the Gulf of Mexico
Since the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, scientists have been working to understand the impact that this disaster has had on the environment. For ...
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Thousands of dead fish reported at mouth of Mississippi
Thousands of fish have turned up dead at the mouth of Mississippi River, prompting authorities to check whether oil was the cause of mass death, local media reports said Monday.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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BP accused of trying to silence science on spill
The head of the American Association of Professors accused BP Friday of trying to buy the silence of scientists and academics to protect itself after the Gulf oil spill, in a BBC interview.
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Scientists find damage to coral near BP well
For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well - a strong indication that damage from the spill ...
Nov 06, 2010 |
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Experts fear long oil effect on marine life, food chain
Scientists studying the massive BP oil spill fear a decades-long, "cascading" effect on marine life that could lead to a shift in the overall biological network in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jul 18, 2010 |
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X Prize to offer millions for Gulf oil cleanup solution
The X Prize Foundation launches a competition this week promising millions of dollars for winning ways to clean up crude oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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New study argues against conclusion that bacteria consumed Deepwater Horizon methane
A technical comment published in the current (May 27) edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the methane discharged from t ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2011 |
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Warned on future, nations look at clean energy
Some of the world's most developed nations were expected Tuesday to announce initiatives to cooperate on clean energy after a top policy board warned that the world's current path on power was unsustainable.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 20, 2010 |
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Bad eggs and oil slicks: Making corporate crime pay
If courts were able to award appropriate punitive damages that punish wrongdoers at a level tied to a company's financial worth, then businesses big and small would be at risk of being put out of business by punitive damages ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Horizontal gene transfer in microbes much more frequent than previoulsy thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests that genes are transferred from one micro-organism to another up to a hundred million times more frequently than previously thought.
Oct 04, 2010 |
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