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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 -
Research, Response for Future Oil Spills: Lessons Learned from Deepwater Horizon
December 3, 2012 — A special collection of articles about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill provides the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the science used in the unprecedented response effort by the ... > full story -
Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes 2010 Spill 52-Times More Toxic; Mixing Oil With Dispersant Increased Toxicity to Ecosystems
November 30, 2012 — If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up ... > full story -
Plants' Exposure to Light Influences Organic Weed Control Methods
November 15, 2012 — The popularity of organic foods and products continues to climb, creating greater demand for organic agriculture. Effective natural alternatives to synthetic chemical weed and pest management are ... > full story -
NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill
October 26, 2012 — Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in ... > full story -
Combination of Gulf Oil and Dispersant Spell Potential Trouble for Gut Microbes
October 23, 2012 — In a new study, researchers examined whether crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the dispersant used on it, or a combination of the two might affect the microbes of the human ... > full story
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