oil spill

Ever since the fateful Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, BP has been presenting the public with short videos on the web that document their response efforts. Now, according to the New York Times, BP is commissioning a feature-length documentary about the oil spill.
According to BP, the intent of… Read the rest

If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers…… Read the rest

Here’s something you can feel good about using–yes, literally and … Read the restfiguratively. By purchasing these limited edition “Drill Without the Spill” Oil Spill Condoms, you’ll donate 20 percent of the proceeds to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. And by using them, you’ll also be doing your part for the environment

For twenty summers, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has published Testing the Waters… Read the rest (TTW), a national report on beach water quality. The report first drew attention to the lack of information available to the public on beach water quality—and the presence all too often of pathogens in bathing waters.

What if crude oil just keeps spilling… and spilling… and spilling into the ocean? Where will it be in a year? The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii considered just that, and created the above simulation video that demonstrates how far the oil… Read the rest

NASA Satellite image of the oil spill from May 23rd.

NASA Satellite image of the oil spill from a few days ago.… Read the rest

A shot that is sure to make any lover of the ocean (or Earth itself) cringe. The caption from Daily Mail’s article reads: “Crude oil washes ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, where swimming is banned.”
[Via: Daily Mail]
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The oil spill disaster continues with new numbers that show the amount of oil gushing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico may be double as much as previously thought. This means the crude is likely to travel farther away, threatening more birds, fish and other wildlife that live… Read the rest

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill
When it comes to oil spills, no one knows this better than Native Alaskans. Indigenous Arctic tribes learned their lesson during the Exxon Valdez debacle of 1989. In this edition of Assignment Earth, several leaders… Read the rest

As you’ve probably noticed, the news about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico never seems to end. Whether about organizations pitching in to save the Gulf or new ideas for how to clean up this mess, there have been a lot of updates on the progress (or… Read the rest