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Want To Clean Up An Oil Spill? There Are Some Microbes Looking For A Meal

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-01-2011 | 1:06 PM | ETHONOMICS

A lingering mystery of the Gulf oil spill is where the oil actually went. It seems now that the microbes in the water made a meal of it, but that doesn't mean we can rely on them for the next spill.READ MORE›

Infographic Video: What If The Gulf Oil Spill Never Happened?

BY Morgan Clendaniel | 04-26-2011 | 6:02 PM | GULF OIL SPILL

A little more than a year ago, the Deepwater Horizon exploded, spilling 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. That much oil is hard to wrap your head around. It's obviously enough to power your car for an astronomical ... READ MORE›

Coast Guard Document Teaches Us How to Prepare for Offshore Oil Disasters

BY Ariel Schwartz | 03-25-2011 | 2:38 PM | ETHONOMICS

Regardless of how lousy they make the organization look, the Coast Guard's failures have much to teach us about how to better prepare for oil disasters. READ MORE›

Making Lemonade: GM Turns BP Disaster Equipment Into Chevy Volt Components

BY Ariel Schwartz | 12-20-2010 | 12:55 PM | ETHONOMICS

The auto giant has devised a way to turn oil-soaked plastic boom material into plastic resin that that can be used for under-the-hood parts in the extended range electric Volt. READ MORE›

What Spill? Chevron Starts Deepwater Gulf Drilling

BY Ariel Schwartz | 10-21-2010 | 11:59 AM | ETHONOMICS

Chevron has announced that it plans to file an application for deepwater drilling permits in the Gulf. But while the oil giant doesn't have the abysmal safety record of BP, we should still be wary.READ MORE›

Surprise! BP's Internal Deepwater Horizon Investigation Is Flawed

BY Ariel Schwartz | 09-27-2010 | 12:08 PM | ETHONOMICS

A panel from the National Academy of Engineering is publicly questioning BP's findings. READ MORE›

First Peer-Reviewed Numbers on BP Oil Spill Disaster Released

BY Jenara Nerenberg | 09-23-2010 | 11:16 AM | ETHONOMICS

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals how many millions of barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.READ MORE›

Terry Hazen on Bacteria Eating Gulf Oil Spill Plume

BY EarthSky.org | 09-16-2010 | 3:06 PM | ETHONOMICS

Bacteria have been rapidly eating a long undersea plume of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Terry Hazen, a microbial ecologist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his team published their research on these bacteria in the journal "Science."READ MORE›

What Caused BP's Deepwater Horizon Disaster?

BY Ariel Schwartz | 09-08-2010 | 11:47 AM | ETHONOMICS

The smoke has literally cleared from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster. Now comes the dirty work of figuring out who to blame.READ MORE›

Pepsi Refresh Project Announces Do Good for the Gulf Finalists

BY Ariel Schwartz | 09-02-2010 | 2:10 PM | ETHONOMICS

Earlier this summer, Pepsi announced that it would dole out $1.3 million in grants for Gulf oil disaster-related projects as part of the Refresh Project, Pepsi's online cause marketing campaign that asks participants how the company ...READ MORE›

BP Report Points Finger at Own Engineers for Deepwater Blowout

BY Addy Dugdale | 08-30-2010 | 10:03 AM | TECHNOLOGY

The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon was caused by a BP engineering error, says the firm's official report into the catastrophe. Although it is not due to be released for another ten days, the report says that an employee ...READ MORE›

BP: Say It, We're Not Spraying It

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-17-2010 | 11:50 AM | ETHONOMICS

The oil giant denies claims that it continues to secretly spray that cancer-causing dispersant on the Gulf slick. READ MORE›

The First $3 Billion Is the Hardest: BP Starts Paying Up

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-10-2010 | 5:34 PM | ETHONOMICS

The oil giant dumps its first--and largest--deposit in the escrow account set up to compensate for the spill. So will Gulf residents get paid now? READ MORE›

Investors to Oil Companies: Prove That You're Prepared for Disaster

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-09-2010 | 12:45 PM | ETHONOMICS

Shareholders are concerned for the overall safety of the sector, which is why 58 investors representing $2.5 trillion in assets banded together recently to demand improved disclosure of oil disaster response plans.READ MORE›

BP Wants to Keep Drilling Near Gulf Oil Disaster Site

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-06-2010 | 2:26 PM | ETHONOMICS

In possibly the worst incidence of deja vu in recent memory, BP says that it still might drill in the massive oil reservoir where the Deepwater Horizon leak unleashed over 4 million gallons of oil.READ MORE›

Power Plant Waste Could Clean Up Oil From BP Disaster

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-05-2010 | 6:40 PM | ETHONOMICS

After over 100 days, the BP oil leak finally appears to be plugged. But while the White House claims that the vast majority of oil has evaporated or been cleaned up with burning, oil skimmers, and dispersants, there is still plenty ...READ MORE›

Oil Is the New Black

BY Tyler Gray | 08-05-2010 | 3:34 PM | EDITORS PICKS

Veteran shock photographer Steven Meisel gets down and dirty in the Gulf of Mexico with a bevy of models for Vogue Italia. Is it too soon? READ MORE›

Pepsi Refresh Project's "Do Good For the Gulf" Campaign Takes Off

BY Ariel Schwartz | 08-02-2010 | 2:10 PM | ETHONOMICS

Launched as an extension to Pepsi's Refresh Project, which crowdsources grants for worthy organizations, the initiative will dole out $1.3 million in grants to projects that help the Gulf--and any projects that directly deal with the environmental impacts of the BP spill don't count.READ MORE›

BP Well Plug Opens Door for Devastating Underground Blowout

BY Ariel Schwartz | 07-26-2010 | 10:32 PM | ETHONOMICS

Oil is no longer gushing into the Gulf, but the danger of the spill flowing freely once again remains.READ MORE›

BP Oil Disaster Could Cost Gulf Economy $22.7 Billion

BY Ariel Schwartz | 07-22-2010 | 9:48 PM | ETHONOMICS

There may no longer be oil seeping into the ocean off Louisiana's coast, but the damage is done. And the cleanup process will be expensive, lengthy, and detrimental to the Gulf economy, according to a report (PDF) from Oxford ...READ MORE›