by Admin | May 7, 2015 | Articles, Environmental hazards
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill released 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, covering 100,000 kilometers, including 1,000 linear miles of coastline. Luckily, the coastlines of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama were spared by the use...
by Admin | Nov 4, 2014 | Articles, Resources
A recent study reports that the infamous BP oil spill of 2010 has left an “oily bathtub ring” on the seafloor. The report by David Valentine, a professor of microbial geochemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara, estimates that roughly 10 million...
by Admin | Apr 19, 2013 | Articles
A polyisobutene (PIB) spill has left hundreds of birds along the eastern and southern coasts of England sickened or dead, according to the Devon Wildlife Trust. The birds have washed up on beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Looe covered in an oily and sticky...
