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Clean-up operations after a spill can miss large quantities of the oil, with severe risks for marine habitats, fish and birds.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster set new records for holding polluters to account. But it had much less impact on laws regulating offshore drilling or US oil dependence.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico, but some parts of this complex ecosystem fared better than others.
The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster catalyzed a decade of research on oil contamination in the Gulf of Mexico, from surface waters to the seabed, with surprising findings.
The BP Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20, 2010 triggered the largest offshore oil spill in history. Ten years later, post-spill reforms are being undone and the Gulf of Mexico remains vulnerable.
In 2004 an underwater avalanche destroyed an oil platform off Louisiana, causing a 14-year spill. An expert on oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico warns that this could happen in other places.
Oysters are big business along the Gulf Coast, but raising them off-bottom – which yields a premium product – is just starting there. Hurricane Michael showed it won’t be easy.
Many products are made in factories where the conditions are far from humane or ethical.
What would you pay to keep trash off your favorite beach, or pollution away from a national park? Economists can tease these values out of our travel choices and use the numbers to help make policy.
The search for oil was once depicted in movies and books as a boys’ own adventure. But as films such as Deepwater Horizon show, in an age of anxieties over fossil fuels, oil’s story is now a darker one.
What happened to the massive underwater ‘oil plume’?
The new movie ‘Deepwater Horizon’ depicts the blowout that triggered the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A professor of petroleum engineering assesses what the film gets right and wrong.
Hollywood turns its hand to the worst environmental disaster in US history – from which the environment is strangely missing.
When employees of dodgy companies or slipshod institutions put it all on the line to do the right thing, why do we hang them out to dry?
A flock of scientists turned their focus to understand the Deepwater Horizon’s impact, including one team that studied deep-sea corals.
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Obama administration is looking to expand offshore drilling. Is it any safer today?
Before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP had previously gained high praise for its treatment of a similar spill.
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists are researching how much oil dropped to sea floor, hitchhiking via ‘marine snow.’
Five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists find dispersants meant to clean up oil spill are toxic to deep-sea corals.
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Chair in Accountancy and Professor in Sustainability Accounting and Transparency, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Environmental Economics, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Microbiology, Heriot-Watt University
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Senior Research Associate, RMIT University
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Professor of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Visiting Researcher, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter
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Professor in American Media and Culture, University of Kent
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Galway
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A.A. White Professor of Law and Interim Director of the EENR Center, University of Houston Law Center
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Professor emeritus of labour studies, Linköping University
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Assistant Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Penn State