10 Species 10 Years Later
<p>This report, 10 Species, 10 Years Later, summarizes the best information available about the wildlife featured. We selected these species for many reasons: They represent different types of affected
Gulf Of Mexico
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Obama talks tough as spill spreads
ANNA DRIVER and JOANNE ALLEN United States Presi June 9: United States President Barack Obama said he wanted to know
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The oil firms' profits ignore the real costs
George Monbiot The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.
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Spreading crisis: Will US Gulf spill reach Europe?
The US coast guard chief in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn
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Long-term eco-disaster looms in Gulf of Mexico
Narayan Lakshman Washington: Even as BP reported signs of success in its latest attempt to slow the powerful gush of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, leading the federal government's response to the spill, said this was a
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Oil spill disaster
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico exposes the risks of ignoring safety regulations in offshore oil drilling. (Editorial)
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Effort widens to stop oil leak at gulf source
Henry Fountain As engineers made headway on Thursday in containing the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, crews on two floating rigs flanking the spot where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank were doing what rig crews normally do: drilling wells.
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Spill oil, pay Rs 5 crore to get away in India
Kirtika Suneja & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi June 5, 2010, 0:04 IST On World Environment Day, Business Standard tracks the hazards in which India
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Deadly spill
ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the seabed. Eleven oil workers are presumed dead although their bodies have not been found.
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Researchers track path of oil from rig spill
With no end in sight for the oil gushing from the explosion site at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, anxious US officials are looking to researchers who study the Gulf of Mexico and its idiosyncratic currents to help determine where all the oil is and where it might be heading.
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Stopping the worst environmental disaster?: an ethical and scientific comparison of the Gulf oil spill and climate change
This new paper by Donald A. Brown from Penn State University compares science and ethics of the Gulf Deepwater Horizon with the Climate Change. It argues that although the Gulf spill is a huge disaster, climate change is a huge moral failure leading to a worse environmental disaster.