TheDay.com Ballard, in an interview Wednesday, said preliminary findings show most of the damage to the coral is being caused by the dispersant chemicals used after the spill rather than from the oil itself. Dispersants were used to prevent the oil from reaching ...
The News Herald “This one had an oil spill on it and the kids have to design their robot to take this dispersant and spread it over the oil spill and go back to start,” said Scott West, who designed all of the missions for that particular camp. Robots equipped with ...
The Birmingham News - al.com By going to the top of the food chain, Payne and the research team aboard the 93-foot research vessel, the Odyssey, hope to discover the long-term impacts of the spill that loosed 4.9 million barrels of oil and more than 1 million gallons of the ...
WWNO Researchers at Tulane University are working on designing a less toxic oil dispersant than the Corexit used on the BP spill in 2010. The goal is using ingredients now approved for human consumption. When BP's Macondo well was erupting, the Coast Guard ... and more »
Newswise (press release) Grayson and his team will work to develop a dispersant using substances approved by the FDA for human consumption. Although prototypes of similar dispersants have been produced, they are not as cost effective as what Grayson's team plans to develop ...
Lez Get Real To cover their tracks before the general public had time to see the enormity of this fuck up, BP authorized their crew to dump MILLIONS of gallons of Correxit (a chemical dispersant ) into the water BEFORE the oil reached the surface. Nobody that is ...
New Yorker (blog) The primary irritant is the chemical capsaicin . Technically known as 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-trans-6-nonenamide, it works by triggering nociceptors—the body's pain sensors—creating a sensation of intense heat. The Scoville Heat Unit, a measure of a given ...
WLOX "It hasn't seen any dispersant applied and is pretty fresh," Asper said. "We have been sampling the sediments at and to the north of the site and haven't seen large amounts of oil in the sediments, but that's not too surprising, given how deep the ...
Truth-Out After writing about BP's worst oil spill in history for the last three years, and how the Gulf of Mexico is an eerie dead zone from the combination of millions of gallons of oil that gushed from BP's 2010 well explosion and the dispersant Corexit that ...
