By Debbie WilliamsPublished: Fri, May 07, 2010 – 7:18 pm CST DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama – Scientist from Dauphin Island Sea Lab took water samples earlier this week off the coast of Dauphin Island and found oily residue floating just below the surface. It maybe the first signs of the oil spill off Alabama’s coast. Thirty-five […]
Caption by Holli Riebeek Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands. The image is […]
As the nation’s leading scientific resource for oil spills, NOAA has been on the scene of the Deepwater Horizon spill from the start, providing coordinated scientific weather and biological response services to federal, state and local organizations. Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,wetland,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption
By HARRY R. WEBER and TAMARA LUSH – Associated Press Writers ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Workers late Thursday started lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider […]
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VENICE, La. – BP Plc engineers carefully lowered a massive metal chamber toward a gushing oil well on the Gulf of Mexico seabed Friday in a high-stakes mission to contain a leak that threatens an environmental catastrophe on U.S. shores. The four-story structure, BP’s only short-term hope of controlling the leak, is supposed to redirect […]
By Jennifer ViegasFri May 7, 2010 08:40 AM ET Experts who assessed the Exxon Valdez disaster describe how the Gulf oil spill could affect birds, reptiles, shrimp, fish and other wildlife. An over 7,000-square-mile wildlife “dead zone” located in the center of the Gulf of Mexico has grown from being a curiosity to a colossus […]
By HARRY R. WEBER and TAMARA LUSH (AP) ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — The captain of a boat hauling a box that is designed to capture the oil spewing into the Gulf says the delay in lowering it into the ocean is being caused by oil fumes that could ignite. Capt. Demi Shaffer tells […]
By Cain Burdeau And Harry R. Weber NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The oil you can’t see could be as bad as the oil you can. While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, […]
GULF OF MEXICO (WLOX) – A team of Mississippi scientists reached the edge of the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday. Dr. Vernon Asper, Professor of Marine Resources at USM and Chairman of the Commission of Marine Resources, sent an email to WLOX News saying he’s at “ground zero” of the oil […]
