International Help En Route For The Gulf
Huge Taiwanese oil-skimming ship, the A-Whale, preparing to sail to the scene of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Minimal Advances in Oil Spill Cleanup Since Valdez Spill
Experts in cleanup technologies acknowledge that most of the equipment in use, only represents improvements in old technology.
1 million times the normal level of methane gas near the Gulf oil spill
Although usually referred to as an ‘oil spill’, the leak is made up of over 40% by mass of natural gas, mostly methane, propane and ethane. Enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said.
A hole in the world
The hole at the bottom of the ocean is more than an engineering accident or a broken machine. It is a violent wound in a living organism, that it is part of us.
Coastal Devastation We Don’t Hear About
Perhaps no place on earth has been as battered by oil spills as the Niger Delta, which has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates.
Burn Boxes
A field of fire out in the Gulf of Mexico, where leaked BP oil burns by the barrel, is known as the “burn box.”
Team says much more oil may have flowed from well
It is the third, and perhaps not last, time the federal government has had to increase its estimate of how much oil is gushing.
Heavier oil from Gulf spill washes up in Florida
Heavier concentrations of oil from the gushing Gulf of Mexico leak have begun sloshing up on Florida seashores.
Why the Oil Spill Won’t End Gulf Drilling
For a nation where oil consumption surged 32 percent between 1970 and 2008 and production declined 40 percent, offshore drilling in the gulf, along with Alaska, represents the new frontier.