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Column: A full circle of solutions lacks true resolution
Should I really even acknowledge the fact that the currently functioning oil cap was knocked off by an underwater robot?
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Research team conducts oceanographic cruise in Gulf
Members of the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State U, together with marine personnel from the Florida Institute of Oceanography, spent five days surveying the St. George Sound, Apalachicola Bay, St. Joseph Bay and Apalachicola River areas from June 8 through June 12.
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Exclusive coverage on the oil spill: take 1
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now a full-fledged environmental disaster, the magnitude of which the U.S. has never seen. Even with the new containment cap in place, anywhere from 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil are still spilling into Gulf waters every day.
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Researchers discuss dispersants
Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank roughly a mile below the water’s surface and BP discovered oil leaking from its wreckage, criticism began swirling about BP’s use of the dispersants Corexit 9500 and 9527, chemical cocktails that break crude oil into globules, dispersing it below the ...
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Column: One International Leak
As the first images of the now-infamous BP Gulf Coast oil spill disaster seeped into the general public consciousness, I felt indignant and outraged, but realized I was largely unaffected. That was, at least, until I discovered www.ifitwasmyhome.
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Oil puts human health and beaches at risk
Six inches under the sugar-like sand of Pensacola Beach, a U. South Florida researcher discovered a vein of oil Thursday that stretches eight miles along the shoreline — just a day after oil from the massive Deepwater Horizon spill washed up on Florida’s coast for the first time.
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Strickland announces NW Ohio solar ‘hub’
Local and state-level civic leaders as well as community members gathered in the main concourse of the University of Toledo’s Scott Park Campus for Energy and Innovation yesterday afternoon to hear Ohio Governor Ted Strickland announce the state’s plan to establish an Ohio Hub of Innovation and ...
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Penn State U. panel clears Michael Mann
A panel of university professors cleared Penn State U. professor Michael Mann Thursday of all wrongdoing in connection with his climate change research, ending Penn State's investigation into his academic honesty.
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Junior interns on oil rig in Gulf of Mexico
A summer internship on a ConocoPhillips oil rig has taken one U. Oklahoma petroleum engineering student to the middle of BP’s disaster in the Gulf.