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June 4, 2010 3:55 PM
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Oil Likely Headed North
Modelers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, have dramatized what researchers have been pointing out for weeks: Some of the oil being spilled into the Gulf...
June 3, 2010 5:48 PM
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Moratorium Shuts Down Oceanographer's Research on Deep-Sea Life
The six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has had an unintended consequence for one scientist working there. Since 2006, Mark Benfield, an oceanographer at Louisiana...
June 3, 2010 4:03 PM
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At Last, NOAA Plans Oil Spill Data Web Site
One of the frustrations of academic scientists over the past few weeks has been the difficulty of getting data collected by the federal agencies responding to the oil spill....
June 3, 2010 3:39 PM
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Sand Berm Funding Grows, But No Cash Yet
UPDATE: BP has announced that it will fund the six approved sections of the sand berm project, estimated to cost $360 million. The company says it will make payments based...
June 2, 2010 4:14 PM
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Where Is the Oil Headed?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) currently tracks wind and tidal data in the gulf. That data has helped offer an initial, course-grained look at the likely path...
June 2, 2010 1:08 PM
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For Life Around Deepwater Horizon, Deep Is Relative
One of the largest remaining unknowns about the impact of the oil is what it will do to corals and other life at the bottom of the Gulf of...
May 28, 2010 5:02 PM
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Blogging Scientists Tracking 'Second Plume' in Gulf
Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia is on a 2-week research cruise to study the deepwater plumes from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. The research vessel Walton Smith...
May 28, 2010 3:31 PM
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Emergency Toxics Lab Just in Time for Gulf Disaster
Analytical chemist Vincent Paez, an official with analytical chemistry giant Thermo Fisher Scientific, set up the new Food Safety Response Center in Dreieich, Germany, this year after feeling that...
May 28, 2010 3:05 PM
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Royal Society Fellows Question Body's Climate Change Statements
For the past several years, the United Kingdom has taken the lead in rallying the world to fight global warming-or at least trying to rally it. While he was...
May 28, 2010 1:42 PM
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Sand Berm Approved to Fight Oil; Scientists Skeptical
The state of Louisiana is poised to begin a large experiment in blocking oil from reaching its fragile wetlands. On 27 May, the Army Corps of Engineers granted an...
May 27, 2010 1:41 PM
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Gulf Spill Big But Not Enormous, Yet
A federally convened expert team has estimated that oil has been gushing from the wrecked Gulf of Mexico well two to four times faster than first guessed. At 12,000...
May 27, 2010 12:23 PM
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How to Kill a Well With Gravity
Oil giant BP plc has a very long straw stuck 3048 meters into the Gulf of Mexico sea floor with oil and gas spouting out the top at several...
May 26, 2010 5:20 PM
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Follow the Top-Kill Procedure, Now Under Way
A helpful animation from CNN explains how mud will slow the oil flow and concrete will stop it completely—if the procedure works. In a detailed, 13-minute video produced by...
May 26, 2010 3:07 PM
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Toxicity Aside, Dispersants Could Undermine Natural Oil-Eaters
Dispersants, which include molecules called surfactants, work much like dish detergent, helping clean up oil spills by breaking oil blobs into tiny droplets. Natural microbes in the ocean can...
May 24, 2010 6:05 PM
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As Scientists Encounter Oil Some Find Death 'All the Way Down'
Scientists in the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to see oil from the blown Deepwater Horizon well intrude on their research sites. Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the...
May 20, 2010 6:48 PM
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Gulf Oil Threat to Florida Waning Fast
No one is lowering their guard just yet, but the chances are diminishing that significant amounts of oil from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon spill will soon make it to...
May 20, 2010 4:46 PM
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Nix the Florida Tarball
It was indeed a tarball that was collected from a Florida Keys beach, but the U.S. Coast Guard has analyzed it and found that it is not from the...
May 20, 2010 4:42 PM
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BP Ordered to Switch Dispersants
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday ordered BP to switch to a dispersant that is less toxic than the ones currently being used, Corexit 9500A and 9527A. Representative Edward Markey (D-MA)...
May 20, 2010 4:35 PM
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First Turtle Rescued
Michael Ziccardi, an Oiled Wildlife Care Network veterinarian advising the spill response in Louisiana, blogs that the first oiled turtle since the spill, a 2-pound Kemp's ridley, has been rescued...
May 20, 2010 3:56 PM
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What's Happening to Marine Life?
Just after the spill, researchers at the state-funded Dauphin Island Sea Lab off the Alabama coast stepped up their existing research to trawl for plankton along a 56-kilometer stretch south...
May 20, 2010 3:45 PM
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What's Happening to Fisheries?
On 18 May, NOAA shut down fisheries in a 118,000-square-kilometer area in the gulf. The move has threatened the lucrative shellfish industry. But the government says it is crucial...
May 20, 2010 3:41 PM
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What's Happening to Life on the Sea Floor?
Two types of communities exist on the deep sea floor of the gulf. Where hydrocarbons seep out of the sediment, clams and mussels live with symbiotic bacteria that tap...
May 20, 2010 3:40 PM
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What is Happening With the Oil?
The magnitude of the catastrophe will depend on the oil's fate: the amount of oil released, how the oil is transformed chemically and physically, and how far and wide...
May 20, 2010 3:36 PM
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What is Happening to Coastal Ecosystems?
Coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico have been under siege for decades. Chronic exposure to large amounts of oil could worsen their plight, killing marsh grasses and the creatures...
May 19, 2010 5:38 PM
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Oil and the Dead Zone
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...
May 19, 2010 5:16 PM
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Three Academy Reports Urge Climate Action
The world's climate is changing, humans are causing it, and the United States should put a price on carbon soon to stanch emissions of the greenhouse gases responsible. That's...
May 19, 2010 10:01 AM
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National Academy Report Calls for Geoengineering Research
In a move long expected, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has called for research into solar radiation management (SRM), the brand of geoengineering that involves blocking a fraction...
May 17, 2010 1:02 PM
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Obama Adviser John Holdren on Why We Don't Know the Size of the Oil Gusher
Academic scientists quoted in stories late last week by NPR and The New York Times suggested that the amount of oil spewing out from the broken pipe on the...
May 13, 2010 1:09 PM
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British Science and Climate/Energy Ministers Named
Following the formation of the United Kingdom's Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government, Conservative Member of Parliament David Willetts has been named as the new minister of state for universities and...
May 12, 2010 5:49 PM
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EPA, BP Eyeing Mega-Dispersant Operation
So far the government and BP have conducted several tests a mile deep in the ocean to deploy an oil spill cleanup technique that's never been attempted before: dispersing...
May 12, 2010 3:01 PM
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Kerry/Lieberman 'American Power Act' Released
Helpful chart after the jump for comparing this proposed climate and energy bill, released today by senators John Kerry (D–MA) and Joe Lieberman (ID–CT). The main differences, from the start:...
May 12, 2010 12:49 PM
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Do You Heart 'The Hartwell Paper'?
On the eve of today's rollout of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill (that was leaked yesterday) in the U.S. Senate, The Economist has delved into a potentially influential new paper...
May 10, 2010 6:11 PM
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Gulf Spill: Did Pesky Hydrates Trigger the Blowout?
Methane-trapping ice of the kind that has frustrated the first attempt to contain oil gushing offshore of Louisiana may have been a root cause of the blowout that started...
May 6, 2010 6:02 PM
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Cool Cleanup Blog
Scientists of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, an organization based at the University of California, Davis, that's advising cleanup efforts in Louisiana, are blogging daily from the front lines...
May 6, 2010 3:06 PM
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Four Ways the Gulf Oil Disaster Was Really Bad Timing
Breeding Season: Invertebrates, sea turtles, and birds will be facing the brunt of the spill just as they are laying eggs or caring for them in important wildlife areas....
May 6, 2010 11:41 AM
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NEON Gets Final Approval, Awaits Money to Start Construction
The most ambitious U.S. effort to assess environmental change on a continental scale won final approval yesterday from the oversight body of the National Science Foundation (NSF). More than...
May 4, 2010 5:31 PM
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Virginia Official Wades Into U.K. Climate Investigation
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is requesting years of documents related to work carried out by Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, climate scientist Michael Mann when he was...
May 3, 2010 6:17 PM
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As Oil Becomes 'Mousse' Then 'Tarballs,' Chemistry Could Determine Coast's Fate
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is no Exxon Valdez, says marine chemist Edward Overton. Instead of a "black tide" of crude oil flushing into marshlands, Overton is looking for mostly...
April 30, 2010 5:00 PM
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Deepwater Horizon Was Not Pushing the Envelope When It Caught Fire
The technological and ecological disaster unfolding on the Gulf Coast may end up being one for the record books, but the tragic failure to contain the deep-seated pressures 7...
April 30, 2010 2:05 PM
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Can Microbes Save the Gulf Beaches? The Challenges Are Myriad
At this point it's unclear how much of an environmental threat oil spreading from the BP spill will cause, but the federal government is mobilizing thousands of workers to...
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