BP officials desperately searched for a new fix to the enormous Gulf of Mexico oil spill after efforts to cap a gushing leak with a containment dome hit a perilous snag.
Environment
May 10, 2010
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The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before ...
Environment
May 8, 2010
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BP capped Wednesday one of three leaks hemorraging crude into the Gulf of Mexico, as emergency crews rushed to protect fragile shorelines and islands at risk from the spreading oil slick.
Environment
May 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Terra satellite flew over the Deepwater Horizon rig's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, May 1 and captured a natural-color image of the slick from space. The oil slick resulted from an accident ...
Earth Sciences
May 4, 2010
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Its long, brown neck held firmly in a blue towel, the northern gannet struggled for freedom, unaware of how very lucky it is to have been found swimming in a sea of oil off the Louisiana coast.
Environment
May 2, 2010
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(AP) -- What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
May 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In this latest image acquired by ESA's Envisat on Thursday at 16:23 UTC, oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico can be seen as a dark blue swirl advancing toward the Louisiana coast.
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2010
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Offshore winds pushed a giant oil slick closer to the Louisiana coast Thursday amid a frenzied effort by authorities to contain what one official said had become a disaster of "national significance."
Environment
Apr 29, 2010
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Engineers began constructing a giant dome to place over a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico to contain a growing spill threatening the US coast, officials said Tuesday.
Environment
Apr 27, 2010
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Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2009
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