The gushing BP oil well is a mystery still unfolding, and a team of scientists from the Energy Department discovered a new twist: Their sophisticated imaging equipment detected not one but two drill pipes, side by side, inside the wreckage of the well's blowout preventer on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico
The Deepwater Horizon rig, which drilled the well, used a single pipe, connected in segments, to bore 13,000 feet below the ocean floor But when workers cut into the wreckage to install
In Brazil, an oil disaster 10 years ago struck an ecosystem much like the mangrove swamps in the US now being threatened by the giant BP oil leak in the US Gulf of Mexico
More than 13 million liters of oil leaked from an underwater pipeline run by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in 2000, making it the country's largest spill The oil contaminated the waters of Guanabara Bay outside Rio de Janeiro, an area which the government at the time said would recover after 10 years
But today the o
The news focuses on what we can see from land, a few beaches with oil on them, some birds caught up in the oil slick
But the real disaster is at see far beyond the eyes of the TV and media Huge swathes of ocean filled with oil, killing all that venture into it A disaster of unimaginable proportions that is a crime against nature itself Watch this video, its heartbreaking
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We have been hearing much about the oil sea in the Gulf Of Mexico, but what is actually happening at the mining site is still open to debate and conjecture There are two main scenarios that people are debating as to the situation on the site, and the future outcomes One offers hope of a speedy end, the other of damnation for the Gulf Both are worth understanding and debating The source of these two scenarios comes from the excellent http://wwwtheoildrumcom/
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Get use to the death toll in the Gulf Of Mexico, all beings reliant on the ocean in that region will eventually die The birds, the fish, the plankton, and all that survives on them This is only the beginning
GULF OF MEXICO - Scientists have spotted a dead sperm whale in the Gulf of Mexico, and are doing tests to see if the oil spill had anything to do with its death
The whale was found floating 77 miles due south of the Deepwater Horizon spill site
It is the first dead whale spott
Go to this website, it will work out where you live from your IP address and give you an idea of how big the oil spill is Well worth a look to get a perspective on things
It really shows that "cleaning up the oil slick" is not an easy job, its enormous
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This video shows how the Russian managed to stop gas leaking from a pipe using a nuclear weapon Its so simple! No fuss, no radiation, all over in 26 seconds The same technique could be used for the oil leak in the gulf The Russians used nukes to put out fires like this a total of 5 times
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If there is any sign of the complexity of the Oil spill problem and the lack of options available, even the US military admit they are helpless to fix the problem Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they had no more tactics left in their arsenal following BP’s latest failure to plug the leak
Responding to calls for the armed forces to take control of the oil spill disaster, Mr Mullen said: [quote]We’ve looked at that continuously since the leak started – wh
In the northern part of Guatemala City, the downpour created a giant sinkhole that swallowed up a space larger than the area of a street intersection Residents told CNN that a three-story building and a house fell into the hole
A local newspaper reported that a private security guard was killed when the sinkhole opened up, but authorities had not confirmed the fatality Residents said that a poor sewage drainage system underground was to blame for the sinkhole A similar hole opened up nea
On Good Morning America, correspondent Sam Champion and Philippe Cousteau Jr explore the toxic plumes of dispersed oil floating beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico
The main effect of a dispersant is the break-up the surface slick into small bits of oil-surfactant micelles that then enter the water column
This increases the surface area of the oil by several orders of magnitude which greatly speeds bio-degradation of the oil through microbial action If the dispersant contains a
So the cap is on, the oil still flows out, and little else seems to work in the short term It may be months until another solution is reached Time to bring in Nuclear weapons The Soviet Union has used controlled nuclear explosions to contain oil spills, on at least five different occasions
The science is to drill a hole near the leak, set off the explosion and then seal off the leak The first underground nuclear explosion was done in Urt-Bulak in 1966 to control burning gas wells The
To understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana's coast from the oil that began washing ashore Thursday, pollution clean-up veterans offered this starting point: Forget the word "spill [quote]This isn't a spill, this isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries This is much, much worse
It's a river of oil flowing from the bottom of the Gulf at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day that officials say could be running for two months or more If th
Filmed at McMurdo Station, where it is relatively sheltered by the surrounding hills The weather is classified as being Condition 3 nice weather, Condition 2 not so nice, or Condition 1 crazy
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Climate scientists have loudly proclaimed that the Atlantic Conveyor belt, the circulation system that pumps warm water north to keep the Northern Hemisphere warm was slowing down The fear was that if it stopped temperatures could plummet over Europe and the Americas This fear was the premise behind at least one disaster movie in the last 5 years
Scientists had released data showing that the AtlanticCconveyor belt was indeed slowing down, and it was only a matter of time until it stopped
Sometimes before earthquakes people talk of seeing strange patterns in the sky An earthquake light, is an unusual luminous aerial phenomenon, that reportedly appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions
According to these reports this happened during the recent Chile Cecelia Lagos, a Chilean reporter, was interviewed and described seeing the sky change colors outside her window as her house shook Here's an MSNBC video of her and the
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