A Dead Zone Was Already in the Gulf By By Ed Wallace June 2010The environmental damage being done to the Gulf of Mexico is often described as the size of either New Jersey or Massachusetts so the layman can understand its vastness, and indeed its enormity. Most recently the damage has been estimated to cover [...]
Oil is the real 'green' fuel, not wind or solar or biofuels By ARIZONA DAILY STAR Jonah Goldberg Tribune Media Services |Saturday, June 19, 2010A rolling "dead zone" off the Gulf of Mexico is killing sea life and destroying livelihoods. Recent estimates put the blob at nearly the size of New Jersey. Alas, I'm not [...]
Natural gas from Gulf well could create oxygen-poor 'dead zone' By Fort Worth Star TelegramPosted Friday, Jun. 18, 2010NEW ORLEANS -- Vast amounts of natural gas in crude oil escaping from the blown Gulf of Mexico well could seriously threaten marine life by creating "dead zones" where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives. The [...]
Oil spill ecological disaster that could worsen dead zone By Robert Pore 4 June 2010The massive BP oil spill in the Gulf is an ecological disaster and will only worsen the pollution that the U.S. already pumps into the Gulf through the Mississippi River with agricultural and urban waste. Michigan State University professor Nathaniel Ostrom [...]
Gulf oil spill could widen, worsen dead zone By Mark Fellows, University Relations, Mark.Fellows@ur.msu.edu, Cell: (517) 819-5437, Office: (517) 884-0166; Nathaniel Ostrom, Zoology, Office: (517) 355-4661, ostromn@msu.eduJune 04, 2010EAST LANSING, Mich. — While an out-of-control gusher deep in the Gulf of Mexico fouls beaches and chokes marshland habitat, another threat could be growing below the [...]
Oil and the Dead Zone By by Lauren Schenkman with reporting by Robert F. Service and Erik StokstadMay 19, 2010 As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a "dead zone" is also having its annual growth spurt. It's not clear how these two complex systems will interact, but scientists are sampling the water [...]
Scientists begin to assess how Gulf 'dead zone' and oil spill might interact By By Sharon Schmickle Thu, May 20 2010 3:07 pm MinnPost A few days after BP’s ruptured oil pipes began contaminating the Gulf of Mexico, Minnpost reported that the disaster threatened double environmental trouble. Unless the gusher was plugged, it could compound problems [...]
Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana By By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 23, 2010GRAND ISLE, LA. -- It has become an epic contest between water and oil along the Gulf Coast. Government officials have now opened wide the Mississippi River outlets -- what they call the diversions -- [...]
The lady and the water By John DeSantis Senior Staff Writer , The Houma CourierSaturday, May 22, 2010 at 6:01 a.m. She stood back a little ways, behind where the Governor, Bobby Jindal, was talking about all the oil that is giving us nightmares and puts us into hurricane mode with no storm to cower [...]
Underwater oil plumes could create new 'dead zone' in Gulf By Clement Sabourin (AFP) May 17, 2010"Normally, in a shallow spill, everything pretty much shoots up to the surface and the impacts are primarily to surface organisms like turtles, dolphins, and birds," said Paul Montagna, a marine ecologist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf [...]