Sentences with phrase «after oil spills»

But when she returned home from her monitoring efforts about a week after the oil spill began, she saw stains on her clothes she'd never seen before.
A lot of companies involved in the oil and gas business have been hit pretty hard after the oil spill.
(08/08/2011) Less than a year and a half after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration has bucked warnings from environmentalists to grant preliminary approval to oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, to drill off the Arctic coast.
«Now, in addition many dolphins dying after the oil spill again in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama had evidence of significant lung disease... in fact, these dolphins had some of the most severe lung lesions I have ever seen in wild dolphins from throughout the U.S.»
Scientists reviewed data on measured oil concentrations in surface water samples collected in Prince William Sound after the oil spill and during the 1989 herring spawning season.
Early work on microbial activity after the oil spill was led by Berkeley Lab's Terry Hazen (now primarily associated with the University of Tennessee), which provided the first data ever on microbial activity from a deepwater dispersed oil plume.
When we clean up after an oil spill of a given size, such as along our shorelines, we start by applying mechanical methods using spades and brooms, combined with chemicals.
Relatively rare in unpolluted seas it quickly comes to dominate the marine microbial ecosystem after an oil spill, and it can be found throughout the world's oceans.
«For example, this discovery gives us an easier way to understand how an ecosystem is recovering after an oil spill,» said Jason Link, lead author of the study and NOAA Fisheries senior scientist for ecosystem management.
It is often thought to be safe, because as the ads proclaim, it is used to clean the sticky black oil found on water fowl after an oil spill.
Everyone has watched the commercial of good citizens cleaning birds and seals with Dawn after an oil spill.
Although the technology has been used in a number of applications ranging from cleaning waterfowl after oil spills to cleaning oyster beds, Thera - Clean has developed it for use in bathing pets.
Fish that swim more slowly more easily become prey to predators, so this could explain the collapse of herring and decline in salmon after the oil spill.
4:06 p.m. — ExxonMobil Pipeline representative Larry Hawthorne reports the incident to the National Response Center, a branch of the U.S. Coast Guard that pipeline companies must notify after oil spills.
«Our concern is that the impact on threatened and endangered species is going to continue for a long time after the oil spill is in the news,» a lawyer for the groups says.
«People can avoid the ocean after an oil spill, but marine animals can't.
Months after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, recognized as the worst oil spill in Oil History, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for an end to the ban on drilling in the Gulf:
«We shouldn't add insult to injury after an oil spill by using dispersants that put wildlife and people at risk.
And what happens after the oil spill is finally cleaned up, and the nation's biggest shellfish industry is ready to get back on track?
It was a rough start to the Easter holiday weekend after an oil spill struck in Mayflower.
And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).
«We found that dolphins dying after the oil spill had distinct adrenal gland and lung lesions that were not present in the stranded dolphins from other areas.»
After its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP was forced to cut its dividend.
Di Franco and his Sicily - based crew of 70 sailors spend most of their time patrolling the waters around Italy, cracking down on illegal fishing and cleaning up after oil spills.
«One of the interesting findings was that after the oil spill, bait fish populations collapsed, and predator populations boomed.
We all know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil spills.
«Super bacteria» clean up after oil spills
Norwegian researchers in Trondheim have achieved surprising results by exploiting nature's own ability to clean up after oil spills.
He now envisages the introduction of a new weapon in the battle to clean up after oil spills.
Scientists know that marine bacteria can assist in cleaning up after oil spills.
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