The Largest Oil Spills in History, 1901 to Present. Gulf oil spill one year later. Google Reader (11) Oil Spill Remedies: Trial and Error in Deep Water - Interactive Feature. Deepwater Horizon Response's Photostream. Gulf Oil Spill Pictures: Aerial Views Show Leak's Size. Tracked From Space: Gulf Oil Slick Approaches Land. Gulf Oil Spill Hits Land—And Wildlife. Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico - The Big Picture. Oil and Gas Stream From the Riser of the Deepwater Horizon Well. Marée noire dans le golfe du Mexique : universcience VOD - La pl.
Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP Admits. Tiniest victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may turn out to. To the watching world the environmental threat that BP's oil disaster poses to the nature-rich Louisiana coast is captured in images of beautiful birds or furry creatures crippled by thick black goo. But scientists who know these estuaries best are more concerned about a less photogenic community.
The grass, microscopic algae and critters living in the wafer-thin top layer of marsh mud - called the benthic community - are the fuel that drives the whole system. If it's covered with oil, everything above, including birds, fish and cute, furry critters, will be in trouble. How Long Will the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Last?: Scientific Ame. More than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez foundered off the coast of Alaska, puddles of oil can still be found in Prince William Sound.
Nearly 25 years after a storage tank ruptured, spilling oil into the mangrove swamps and coral reefs of Bahia Las Minas in Panama, oil slicks can still be found on the water. And more than 40 years after the barge Florida grounded off Cape Cod, dumping fuel oil, the muck beneath the marsh grasses still smells like a gas station. "The conventional wisdom then was that the oil would only last for a few days," says marine chemist Chris Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who is part of the "third or fourth" generation of scientists to study the Florida spill. "But in this small area you have chemical warfare still going on. " That spill was only roughly 190,000 gallons—or less in total than the ongoing BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has gushed every day since April 20. There is no cure. BP Gulf Oil Spill Photos - Video BP Gulf Oil Spill - The Daily G.
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 interact, but scientists are sampling the water for clues. Fertilizer and urban runoff into the Mississippi River dump nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico. In the spring, higher flows contribute a pulse of nutrients that triggers huge blooms of algae. When the algae dies and sinks to the sea floor, it is consumed by bacteria that guzzle oxygen from the water.
If oxygen levels drop too low, shrimp, fish, and other sea life must flee or die, leaving a dead zone that sometimes grows to the size of the state of New Jersey. Oil reaches Louisiana shores. Anatomy of the Gulf Oil Spill. Caught in the oil. BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally. Gulf oil spill: Sea turtle swims through oil to nest on Alabama. On the shores of southern Alabama, there was a disaster, and a miracle: The worst oil since the Deepwater Horizon blowout washed ashore late Saturday, even as a sea turtle swam through the mess and laid a new nest on shore.
It got worse: Though motorized vehicles are not supposed to be used in cleanup in the area used by the turtles, the beach was soon swarming with all-terrain vehicles and heavy equipment. One of the vehicles ran over the nest, said Mike Reynolds of Share the Beach, whose volunteers patrol the 47 miles of sandy beach west of the Florida border to find and protect new turtle nests. Then came the good news: Volunteers were able to find the nest, safely dig up the 127 new ping-pong-ball-sized eggs and rebury them in a safe location.
BP oil spill wildlife dying by the thousands (Video, Photos) Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster began on April 20, rescue teams have brought in about 1,000 birds from oil covered Gulf waters.
However that number, experts say, represents only about 10% of the number of animals believed to have been killed in the BP oil slick, which now covers approximately 3,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico's surface. Grand Isle Louisiana has been hit hard by the incoming, oily black tide. More than 300 birds are being caught every day, many of whom do not survive, despite rescue efforts. Once cleaned, the birds are taken to the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary in Indian shores, Florida, where they are released back into the wild.
However, some birds have been making their way back to oil fouled Louisiana waters, in search of their nests. Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS: Gulf Of Mexico Disaster Unfolds. ERMA. June Science Picks: Hot News about Cool Science (6/15/2. Inside Oil-Spill Pelican Rehab [Photos]