Gulf of Mexico

The Largest ‘Dead Zone’ Ever Has Been Recorded off the Coast of Louisiana

A recent expedition to the Gulf of Mexico has yielded the largest “dead zone” ever recorded in the area. Measuring 8,776 square miles, this massive patch of oxygen depleted water is wreaking havoc on the Gulf’s marine life—a consequence of unchecked agricultural runoff pouring down from the Mississippi River. Dead zones appear in the Gulf…

Tech News George Dvorsky

I Paddled All 2,552 Miles Of The Mississippi River

Kayaking the entire 2,552-mile length of the Mississippi River has been a challenge. It would be for anyone, but for novice paddlers like me and the now heavily-bearded boyfriend, it amounted to the biggest challenge we’ve ever faced. Here’s why. Out of the nearly two-and-a-half months we spent on the river, it was the last…

Tech News Alex Woodford

An Oil Spill Near Louisiana Has Been Quietly Leaking for 10 Years

Everyone remembers the catastrophic oil spills like BP’s in 2010. Few remember the slow motion spills, like Taylor Energy’s, which has been drip drip dripping for all of the past 10 years—a leak shrouded in secrecy and seemingly impossible to fix. An investigation by the Associated Press this week sheds some light on the Taylor…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Strikingly beautiful pictures show the horrors of the BP oil spill

Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá took these images for the book Spill (which you can buy here.) They’re beautiful, perfectly crafted shots despite their horrible—and gut-wrenching to the point of nausea—subject matter: The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The incompetence of British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean killed 11 people and…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Could Be the Unconscious Pilot Who Crashed Into the Gulf of Mexico (Update: Confirmed By His Daughter On Facebook?)

According to reports, the unconscious pilot who crashed into the the Gulf of Mexico earlier today was Dr. Peter Hertzak, 65, an OB-GYN and plastic surgeon from Slidell, Louisiana. The Coast Guard watched the plane sink, so it’s all but certain that the pilot died. https://gizmodo.com/plane-with-unconscious-pilot-is-circling-out-of-control-5903438 See “Update 3” below for possible confirmation Dr. Hertzak…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Gulf Spill, One Year Later

Fixing This | One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history Why Capping a Blown Oil Well at the Bottom of the Ocean is so Insanely Difficult https://gizmodo.com/why-capping-a-blown-oil-well-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-5785036 Last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped an estimated 2.6 million gallons of oil A…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

BP’s Oil Spill Report Lays Blame on “Multiple Companies and Work Teams”

After five months of investigations, soul-searching and naval-gazing, BP’s released its report today summarizing exactly how a catastrophe such as their Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could have occurred. And it’s a doozy. Amazingly, BP isn’t shouldering the blame themselves. Oh no. Instead, they’ve generously spread it amongst the “multiple companies and work teams”…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Scientific proof that the Deepwater oil plume is over 20 miles long

Today scientists revealed the results of an investigation into the severity of the Deepwater oil spill. The plume of petroleum hydrocarbon chemicals measures a staggering 22 miles long, and has settled in a deep underwater layer (see photo). The actual existence of the plume was in some doubt until a team of researchers at Woods…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

This one-year projection of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will ruin your day

Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa have created a simulation of the potential spread of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill over 360 days. Their hypothetical scenario? All sorts of bad. Researchers at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have created a model that charts the oil’s possible path over…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Laugh you may have when you heard that Kevin Costner was stepping into BP’s oil spill disaster with a potential solution, but BP has now snapped up 32 of the centrifuge machines to help separate the oil from the water. The technology was created by Costner’s brother, with the actor pumping in $20m over 15…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Time Lapse Video of BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster

This NASA time lapse video shows how the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster evolved from April 20, the day of the explosion, to May 24. The images were taken by the MODIS instrument in NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. https://gizmodo.com/the-gulf-oil-disaster-shortly-after-the-explosion-5544123 According to NASA, the shape of the oil flood—which appears in grayish-beige in the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Gulf Disaster Video That BP Doesn’t Want You To See

Those damn BP liars are making things even worse trying to fix the catastrophe they caused. Their efforts are turning the massive oil flood into giant underwater clouds made of corrosive particles. Here’s the underwater video to prove it. The chemical dispersants that BP is using—trying to fix the gigantic mess caused by their reckless…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Gulf Oil Disaster “Looks Very Scary”, Says Astronaut

“It looks very scary. It’s not good. I really feel… not good about that.” That’s what the International Space Station Commander, cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, says about the Gulf’s oil disaster. This is the last satellite image. Update: New image added. Captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite, the image shows only part of the oil surface, with…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Largest ‘Dead Zone’ Ever Has Been Recorded off the Coast of Louisiana

I Paddled All 2,552 Miles Of The Mississippi River

An Oil Spill Near Louisiana Has Been Quietly Leaking for 10 Years

Strikingly beautiful pictures show the horrors of the BP oil spill

This Could Be the Unconscious Pilot Who Crashed Into the Gulf of Mexico (Update: Confirmed By His Daughter On Facebook?)

The Gulf Spill, One Year Later

BP’s Oil Spill Report Lays Blame on “Multiple Companies and Work Teams”

Scientific proof that the Deepwater oil plume is over 20 miles long

This one-year projection of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will ruin your day

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Time Lapse Video of BP’s Gulf Oil Disaster

The Gulf Disaster Video That BP Doesn’t Want You To See

Gulf Oil Disaster “Looks Very Scary”, Says Astronaut

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