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New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat from Shipwrecks
NOAA presented to the U.S.
Coast Guard a new report
that finds that 36 sunken
vessels scattered across the
U.S. seafloor could pose an
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Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
When it comes to cleaning up
the next massive crude oil
spill, one of the best and
most eco-friendly solutions
for the job may be low-grade
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Cotton Offers a New Ecologically Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills
With the Deepwater Horizon
disaster emphasizing the
need for better ways of
cleaning up oil spills,
scientists are reporting
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Health Defects Found in Fish Exposed to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Three Years Later
Three years after the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico, crude
oil toxicity continues to
sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast
... > full story
- New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Pollution Threat from Shipwrecks
- Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills
- Cotton Offers a New Ecologically Friendly Way to Clean Up Oil Spills
- Health Defects Found in Fish Exposed to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Three Years Later
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Special E. Coli Bacteria Produce Diesel on Demand
April 22, 2013 — It sounds like science fiction but scientists have developed a method to make bacteria produce diesel on demand. While the technology still faces many significant commercialization challenges, the ... > full story -
Gulf of Mexico Has Greater-Than-Believed Ability to Self-Cleanse Oil Spills
April 8, 2013 — The Gulf of Mexico may have a much greater natural ability to self-clean oil spills than previously believed, an expert in bioremediation has ... > full story -
Natural Soil Bacteria Pump New Life Into Exhausted Oil Wells
April 8, 2013 — Technology that enlists natural soil bacteria as 21st century roughnecks now is commercially available and poised to recover precious oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells. The process ... > full story -
Promising Oil-Drilling Tool
April 5, 2013 — An innovative new oil-drilling tool concept has seen the light of ... > full story -
'Dirty Blizzard' in Gulf of Mexico May Account for Missing Deepwater Horizon Oil
March 14, 2013 — Oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill acted as a catalyst for plankton and other surface materials to clump together and fall to the sea floor in a massive sedimentation event that researchers ... > full story -
Biodiesel Algae: Starvation Diets Damage Health
March 11, 2013 — New research shows that the commonly accepted method of depriving algae of key nutrients such as nitrogen in order to boost its oil content may be detrimental to overall oil yield in the long ... > full story -
Cleaning Oil Spills With Paper Mill Sludge?
February 25, 2013 — Eco-innovation is at its best when the waste of one industry becomes the raw material of another. This is precisely what a new research project CAPS, is attempting to do with waste sludge from ... > full story -
Chemical Lets Researchers Extract Significant Oil Deposits; Leaves Positive Environmental Footprint
January 30, 2013 — Chemicals found in common household items are proving to be the right formula to safely extract up to 70 percent of oil still embedded in high-salt oil reservoirs in the United States. A research ... > full story -
Citizen Science More Than a Century Later: Ordinary People Go Online to Track Gulf Oil Spill
December 10, 2012 — Researchers report on a new form of "citizen science," concluding that it can help assess health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil disaster. The researcher studied ... > full story -
Gulf Oil Spill: Oil-Dispersing Chemicals Had Little Effect on Oil Surfacing, According to New Study
December 4, 2012 — A new study examined the effects of the use of unprecedented quantities of synthetic dispersants on the distribution of an oil mass in the water column. Scientists developed and tested models to show ... > full story
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