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Winds Played Important Role in Keeping Oil Away from South Florida
July 9, 2012 — Winds played an important role in keeping oil from the Gulf oil spill away from South ... > full story -
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Exacerbated Existing Environmental Problems in Louisiana Marshes
June 25, 2012 — The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill temporarily worsened existing manmade problems in Louisiana’s salt marshes such as erosion, but there may be cause for optimism, according to a new ... > full story -
Waves of Responders Deploy Omics to Track Deepwater Horizon Cleanup Microbes
June 21, 2012 — In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago, a team of researchers found that marine microbial communities also played a role in the dispersal ... > full story -
Microbial Communities Changed After Deepwater Horizon Spill
June 6, 2012 — Communities of microbial organisms -- species such as nematodes, protists and fungi -- on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April ... > full story -
Push from Mississippi Kept Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick Off Shore
May 10, 2012 — Geoscientists offer an explanation for why the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn't have the environmental impact that many had feared. Using publicly available datasets, their study reveals that the ... > full story -
First 'Microsubmarines' Designed to Help Clean Up Oil Spills
May 2, 2012 — Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of the first self-propelled "microsubmarines" designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters and transport them to collection ... > full story -
Marine Scientists Urge Government to Reassess Oil Spill Response
April 20, 2012 — On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, a national panel of researchers is urging the US federal government to reassess how it would respond to similar oil spills that might occur ... > full storyMore: -
Higher Concentrations of Heavy Metals Found in Post-Oil Spill Oysters from Gulf of Mexico, Experts Say
April 19, 2012 — Scientists have detected evidence that pollutants from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have entered the ecosystem's food chain. Preliminary results demonstrate that oysters ... > full story -
BP Oil Spill, Two Years Later: Natural Recovery Far Greater Than Expected
April 17, 2012 — This Friday, April 20, will mark two years since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused vast quantities of crude oil to flow into the Gulf of Mexico. But despite the size of the ... > full story -
Can Sound Science Guide Dispersant Use During Subsea Oil Spills?
April 17, 2012 — On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, a pair of researchers are testing whether sound waves can be used to determine the size of oil droplets in the subsea—knowledge ... > full story
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