Crude oil causes developmental abnormalities in large marine fish
Study shows Deepwater Horizon oil disrupts heart development in tunas Crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster causes severe defects in the developing hearts … Read more
Gulf of Mexico
Poor dolphin health tied to Gulf oil spill
Dolphin health took a toxic nosedive in one of the areas hit hard by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a new … Read more
Feds step up — a bit — to protect marine mammals from Navy sonar
NOAA Fisheries announced today final regulations requiring the United States Navy to implement protective measures during training and testing activities in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf … Read more
Deep sea ecosystem may take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon spill
The deepsea soft-sediment ecosystem in the immediate area of the 2010’s Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico … Read more
The best defense against catastrophic storms: Mother Nature
Extreme weather, sea level rise and degraded coastal systems are placing people and property at greater risk along the coast. Natural habitats such as dunes … Read more
Air pollution rom Deepwater Horizon spill similar to a whole city
The amount of air pollutants in the atmospheric plume generated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was similar to a large city according to a … Read more
LSU expert teams with Ohio State researcher to track species affected by Gulf oil spill
BATON ROUGE — To establish a baseline for measuring and predicting the biological impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a LSU ichthyologist and an Ohio biomedical informatics researcher are using Ohio Supercomputer Center, or OSC, systems t…
Of mice and men: The ecological disasters–Deepwater Horizon and the Dust Bowl
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 … Read more
