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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BP prepares top kill to plug oil leak as cost jumps to $760 m
BP Plc will try to plug an underwater oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy drilling fluids into a damaged well in the next few days, as the cleanup costs of the monthlong spill accelerate.
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Why deep-water oil spills do their damage deep down
As little as 2 per cent of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be accounted for by surface slicks, a study of a controlled spill suggests.
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Tendrils of spill enter Gulf loop current
Narayan Lakshman Washington: A long
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Oil leak: sea turtle faces danger
Padre island national seashore, Texas
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Disaster, unmitigated
The economist Paul Krugman suggested in his New York Times column earlier this month that the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could provide the flagging environmental movement with the renewed impetus it so badly needs. The modern movement, he pointed out, gained a great deal of momentum from a fire on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, on 22 June 1969.
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700m gallons of oil pollutants enter oceans annually
What causes oil spills?
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Oil industry failed to heed blowout warnings
The warnings were there a decade ago. Yet little has been done to address the risk of systems failure in deep-sea drilling operations,
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Oil giants blame one another for Gulf spill
Suzanne Goldenberg Executives from three oil giants point fingers at one another under tough questioning from U.S. senate committee. The three oil industry titans behind the Gulf of Mexico spill all sought to blame one another under questioning from senators on Tuesday (May 11), as troops fanned out along the Louisiana coastline to limit the damage caused by the environmental disaster.
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Gulf oil spill might spur a movement
James William Gibson
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Environmental catastrophe
The explosion that destroyed the offshore oilrig, Deepwater Horizon, at a well owned by British Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico has been an environmental catastrophe. A surge of gas and oil burst through safety valves and exploded, killing 11 of the 126 crew on April 20.