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Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April of 2010, the National Wildlife Federation and its Gulf of Mexico Restoration program have closely monitored the scientific research on the impacts of the disaster on wildlife and the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico.. In late 2015, the federal government released an in-depth official report, known as the Programmatic Damage Assessment and ...
12 de nov. de 2018 · This past summer, the Gulf of Maine experienced its second-warmest day on record, reaching 20.52°C (68.93°F) on 8 August—just a fraction of a degree lower than the warmest-ever day recorded in ...
Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the damaged wellhead pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 ( 87 days later ), an ...
A Deadly Toll The Devastating Wildlife Effects of Deepwater Horizon — and the Next Catastrophic Oil Spill. The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico.Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than 154 million gallons of oil at sea.
6 de may. de 2014 · In their recent study, which has been accepted for publication in Marine Ecology Progress Series, the authors estimate that up to 800,000 coastal birds died as a direct result of the Deepwater Horizon spill. That number, as large as it is, is on the conservative side, says Audubon Director of Bird Conservation for the Gulf Coast and Mississippi ...
8 de jul. de 2010 · The highest recorded tide (16.1 m) was at Burntcoat Head, NS. At peak flood tide, the flow of water across the edge of the continental shelf into the Gulf of Maine is 25 million cubic metres per second, 2000 times the average discharge of the St. Lawrence River. The flow past Cape Split into Minas Basin is 40 times that of the St Lawrence.
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 men and unleashing a torrent of oil and natural gas from BP’s Macondo wellhead into the Gulf of Mexico. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010, an estimated 134 million gallons of crude oil and four million pounds of gas had escaped into Gulf waters.1.
