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Categories: Geoscience: Environmental Issues
Published Safe solution to mop up oil spills
(via sciencedaily.com) Researchers have come up with a new, safe way to clean up oil spills using compounds equally useful as common household cleaning products.
Published All-in-one: New microbe degrades oil to gas
(via sciencedaily.com) The tiny organisms cling to oil droplets and perform a great feat: As a single organism, they may produce methane from oil by a process called alkane disproportionation. Previously this was only known from symbioses between bacteria and archaea. Scientists have now found cells of this microbe called Methanoliparia in oil reservoirs worldwide.
Published Largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill
(via sciencedaily.com) A team of researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed following the drilling rig's explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Published Consequences of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
(via sciencedaily.com) Marine snow is the phenomena of flakes of falling organic material and biological debris cascading down a water column like snowflakes. But an oil spill like Deepwater Horizon will add oil and dispersants to the mix, making marine oil snow that is can be toxic to organisms in deep-sea ecosystems.
Published Dead roots double shoreline loss in Gulf
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study finds that the loss of marsh-edge salt grasses and mangroves due to disturbances such as heavy oiling from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill doubles the rate of shoreline erosion in hard-hit marshes.
Published Complex geology contributed to Deepwater Horizon disaster, new study finds
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study takes an in-depth look at the challenging geologic conditions faced by the crew of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the role those conditions played in the 2010 disaster.
Published Continuing impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
(via sciencedaily.com) Nine years ago tomorrow -- April 20, 2010 -- crude oil began leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig into the Gulf of Mexico in what turned out to be the largest marine oil spill in history. A long-term study suggests the oil is still affecting the salt marshes of the Gulf Coast, and reveals the key role that marsh grasses play in the overall recovery of these important coastal wetlands.
Published New report examines the safety of using dispersants in oil spill clean ups
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Scientists have issued a series of findings and recommendations on the safety of using dispersal agents in oil spill clean-up efforts.
Published Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world's deepest ocean trench, Mariana Trench
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Research that reveals what lies at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench. Until now, scientists knew more about Mars than the deepest part of the ocean. But an expedition to collect samples of the microbial population at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench (some 11,000 meters down) has revealed a new 'oil-eating' bacteria.