Deepwater Horizon

The biology of being oily. Something old and something new.

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      Relax.  This is not another story of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  This is even more up close and personal—it’s the daily oil spill on your skin.        It’s the middle of the New York summer.  You sweat profusely most of the time.  Worse, your natural skin oils … Read more

Of mice and men: The ecological disasters–Deepwater Horizon and the Dust Bowl

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The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy From the Scots poem by Robert Burns, 1785, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with a Plough For almost two decades, there has never been a spill of any … Read more