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The oil slick as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill in history.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (also known as the BP Oil Spill) was estimated [by whom?] to have killed over 8,000 birds, sea turtles and marine mammals from April to September in 2010. [3] Animals come into direct contact with the oil, and may ingest, inhale or absorb it. [2] Animals may also become contaminated by eating other contaminated ...
In 2016, After the Spill, [395] Jon Bowermaster investigates how the disaster affected local economies and the health of humans, animals, and food sources, and with Corexit, where all the oil went, as a follow-up to the pre-spill SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories, in post-production when the Deepwater Horizon exploded.
Bottlenose dolphins living near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico show striking signs of genetic changes associated with a wide variety of
Guest columnists Hermina Glass-Hill and Claudia Davis look back on the 12 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and what it means for Georgia.
Story at a glance There’s no doubt the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was detrimental to marine life. Now, new research details the toll of the disaster on human health. Workers who helped ...
After April 20, 2010, when an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Macondo oil drilling platform triggered the largest oil spill in US history, another opportunity for oil toxicity research was presented. [7] Approximately 171 million gallons of crude oil flowed from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico, exposing the majority of the surrounding ...
When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...