amazing oil spill research 2019

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  New Study of Gulf Oil Spill Details the Plume's Chemical Makeup, Helping Explain Where the Oil Went

  Advanced ocean science tech helps researchers study the spill

  ... most confounding problems with the oil spill was scientific uncertainty — about how ... Science Foundation for funding ongoing oil spill research programs, which proved useful in ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Oil Spills: Uncovering A Battle Between Technology and Ecology

  Research suggests the use of chemical dispersants hinders oceanic microbes responsible for natural cleanup

  ... as the spill released over 180 million gallons of crude oil (in ... effective at eating up the oil spill. However, the results probably won ...

  By Jason Tetro
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  Bacteria Ate All the Methane From the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, New Study Says

  ... . Within four months of the oil spill, bacterial blooms had removed more ... , were also feasting on the spill. Bacteria have evolved to live ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill

  ... the wake of the BP oil spill. Shrimp without eyes or even ... in the wake of the oil spill--we knew (and know) very little ...

  By Dan Nosowitz
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  Using Nanoparticles And Mussel Glue To Clean Up Oil Spills

  Harness marine life to save marine life

  ... . Current technology for cleaning up oil spills is Polypropylene. This buoyant, synthetic ... , but highly recyclable. “Frequent oil spill accidents from oil production and transportation result ...

  By Levi Sharpe
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  Video: Emulsifying Molecule Could Magnetize Oil Spills For Easy Cleanup

  A lot of oil spill clean-up technology is focused ... a batch into an oil spill, let the oil, water, and emulsifier mix ...

  By Colin Lecher
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  Depressing: Oil Spilled To Date Could Power 38,000 Cars For a Year

  ... Web site that calculates the spilled oil's lost potential on a daily ... estimates $1 million in oil is being spilled each day. And that ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill Sickened Fish For At Least A Year

  A new study discovered illness and birth defects among Gulf Coast fish nearly 16 months after the BP explosion.

  ... good subjects for studying the oil's impact. The expeditions' time frame ... indicate that contaminating oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts organismal fitness ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  The Most Amazing Science Images of 2010

  Launch the gallery below, and enjoy our favorite pictures of the year, all in one place

  ... Popular Science begins with two amazing, full-page images in a ... : from disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull ...

  By Dan Nosowitz
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  Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says

  The massive plume scientists announced last week might already be gone

  ... variables when studying the Gulf oil spill? Here's another one: according ... viscosity of oil inside land-based wells, among other research areas. Hazen ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  X-Prize Challenge Offers $1.4 Million for Revolutionary Oil Cleanup Tech

  ... , by the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ... take place at the National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain

  ... came into contact with the spilled oil, scientists say. Given their importance ... month's issue of Geographical Research Letters. [via Science Daily ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  How Do Oil Dispersants Work?

  To help understand, consider your kitchen sink

  ... -director of the Coastal Response Research Center, speaking by phone from ... consensus was that for this oil spill, underwater dispersants are the right ...
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  Deepwater Horizon Spill May Be Responsible For Heart Defects In Fish

  Fish that were exposed to oil when they were young will be unlikely to survive to reproduce.

  Nearly 170,000 gallons of oil have spilled into Texas' Galveston Bay, threatening ... anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. That spill had similar effects on ...

  By Douglas Main
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  Newly Discovered Underwater Oil Plume Paints a Complex Picture of Gulf Leak Aftermath

  Scientists have yet to agree on the scope of the disaster

  ... cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill, called that report fatally flawed ... this disaster. Kendall said that research is only just beginning. "To ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Scientists Say They Can Measure Rate of Oil Leak if BP Releases Clear Seafloor Video

  ... an interview with MIT news, oil spill expert (and emeritus professor) Jerome ... tracking the movement of the oil from orbit. Meanwhile, the Deepwater ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Novel Cloth Material Designed to Counter Bio-Attacks Can Absorb, Detoxify Crude Oil

  ... not to think much about oil spill remediation technology until something like ... cotton layers effectively absorb oil -- even oil that's dispersed in ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Gulf Oil Disaster Update: Up to 80% of the Crude May Still Be Lurking in the Water

  ... 4.1 million barrels of oil spilled are still lurking below the ... three-quarters of the oil from the spill has already disappeared is ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  NASA Will Rescue Thousands of Sea Turtle Eggs from Oil Leak Areas

  ... beaches affected by the BP oil spill, from Panama City to Apalachicola ... . BP's ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill has released hundreds of millions ...

  By Laurie J. Schmidt
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  Two-Inch-Thick Layer of "Missing" Oil Found on Gulf Seafloor

  ... sail August 21 on the research vessel Oceanus and has been ... theory that most of the spilled oil disappeared. Scientists previously said plenty ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  Underwater Survey Finds Volume of Leaked Oil Unprecedented 'in Human History'

  ... existence of huge concentrations of oil spreading for miles beneath the ... concerned that the Deepwater Horizon spill may be the worst ecological ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  Oil Sheen Sighted in Gulf of Mexico Raises New Questions About Last Summer's Spill

  ... of last year's devastating spill. BP and Coast Guard officials ... University, where scientists confirmed the oil was Louisiana sweet crude. It ...

  By Rebecca Boyle
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  After 106 Days, 'Static Kill' Appears to Have Stopped the Gulf Oil Leak

  ... million gallons, of crude were spilled, costing BP billions in cleanup ... damaging the lingering and dispersed oil is remains to be seen ...

  By Clay Dillow
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  One More Proposal to Plug the Oil Leak, But Can We Afford To Make Things Worse?

  ... to stem the flow of oil. Wattenburg's simple idea involves ... pressure from the upward-surging oil. Once the balls get deep ...

  By Clay Dillow