Re: Re: Top 10 Cutest Animals Threatened By The BP Oil SpillJohannes van Leunen
Use of Biomarkers in Oil Spill Risk Assessment in the Marine Environment Numerous molecular, cellular, and physiological biomarkers have been used to assess the responses of marine animals to petroleum compounds. To be used in e... Jack W. Anderson & Richard F. Lee - 《Human & Ecological Ris...
Six years on, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still claiming victims. More than 170 stillborn and juvenile bottlenose dolphins found stranded in recent years along the Gulf Coast were likely killed by oil from the April 2010explosion of the Deepwater Horizon ...
, bleaching (when the zooxanthellae die due to some stress, leaving "white" coral skeletons behind) and excessive mucus and a strange brown material coating the colonies. Individual coral polyps were retracted into their exoskeletons, a response seen in these animals due to exposure to crude oil...
Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1,470,000 US gallons per day! There are over 400 different species of animals living in the area affected by the spill. 464 sea turtles and 60 dolphins were found dead within the spill area...
BP's negligence directly caused the spill and its devastating consequences. Motion 2: The BP oil spill had a minimal impact on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. The spill caused extensive damage to marine life,including killing hundreds of thousands of fish, birds, and other animals. The spill al...
It started with a Google search. When confronted with the dead animals washing up on the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill in late 2010, cartographer Jeffrey Warren and a small community of technologists and volunteers typed in “how do you identify oil.” ...
Learn To Speak Benghazi! Posted on June 29, 2010 inImages Scientists found this sperm whale 77 miles south from the Deepwater spill site off the Gulf Coast. [tags]whale, wtf, environmental damage, sperm whale, picture, photograph, photograph of gulf coast, oil spill, bp, british petroleum,...
QUEEN BESS ISLAND, La. (AP) — A pelican rescued from the 2010 oil spill, cleaned of oil and released in Georgia has returned 700 miles (1,126 kilometers) to an island restored last year for pelicans and other seabirds.
Knowing how the ocean normally looks, the horror of this massive environmental catastrophe that killed 11 people, countless animals, and polluted oceans and coastlines and interfered with fisheries is readily apparent and impossible to escape. Arriving in the Gulf one week after the spill, Beltrá ...