News tagged with oil depletion analysis

How much oil have we used?

Estimates of how much crude oil we have extracted from the planet vary wildly. Now, UK researchers have published a new estimate in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology that suggests we ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (16) | comments 9




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Action needed to keep fish on the menu in 2050

The latest study suggests we may still be able to eat as much fish as we do today 40 years from now. But for that to happen, we'll have to change our ways, say scientists.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Marine scientists urge government to reassess oil spill response

On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, a national panel of researchers including University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye is urging the federal government to reassess how it ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Building a sustainable hydrogen economy

The concept of the hydrogen economy (HE), in which hydrogen would replace the carbon-based fossil fuels of the twentieth century was first mooted in the 1970s. Today, HE is seen as a potential solution to the dual global ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 18

Economics, physics are roadblocks for mass-scale algae biodiesel production, study finds

Companies looking to engineer an eco-friendly diesel fuel have more red lights in their path. According to Kansas State University researchers, making petroleum diesel completely green would not only bend the laws of physics, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Scientists start to piece together damage puzzle of BP spill

The search for what the BP oil well blowout did to the Gulf of Mexico already has gone to extraordinary lengths: more than 125 research cruises covering hundreds of square miles and taking thousands of water and sediment ...

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created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Plant-based plastics not necessarily greener than oil-based relatives

An analysis of plant and petroleum-derived plastics by University of Pittsburgh researchers suggests that biopolymers are not necessarily better for the environment than their petroleum-based relatives, according ...

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created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Human impacts on the deep seafloor

Scientists have for the first time estimated the physical footprint of human activities on the deep seafloor of the North East Atlantic. The findings published in the journal PLoS ONE reveal that the area d ...

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created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Study shows deepwater oil plume in Gulf degraded by microbes

In the aftermath of the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil plume was formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet and extending some 10 miles out from ...

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created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Scientists map and confirm origin of large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in Gulf

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue ...

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created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mediterranean most threatened sea on Earth

The Mediterranean Sea's exquisitely rich mix of flora and fauna is more threatened than marine life anywhere else on Earth, according to a landmark scientific survey released Monday.

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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