Sentences with phrase «up oil spills»

Scientists create a plant - based chemical that could one day be used to help clean up oil spills in the Arctic.

Dispersants are preapproved to help clean up oil spills and are widely used during disasters.

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This behavior could help scientists create biomimicry solutions for «small, swarming robots that might someday be used to explore inaccessible areas or even clean up oil spills,» reports Wired.

One example of this is the oyster mushroom, which has been found to successful in cleaning up oil spills, as an alternative to more harmful detergents.

Cleaning Oil Spills As we mentioned above, some bacteria like to eat chemicals found in oil spills, which means they can be, and are, used in cleaning up oil spills as well.

The operation is also keeping a native San Francisco strain of oyster mushroom in stock so it can be deployed as a mycoremediation tool to clean up oil spills and break down hydrocarbons.

What's more, we have tools to clean up oil spills, so we actually can clean them up (at least to a certain degree) when we set out to do so — as of now, solutions that can clean up carbon spills from the air are just beginning to reach commercial scale.

Since the Deepwater Horizon incident, we've seen an increased focus on developing new ways to contain and clean up oil spills more efficiently.

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In other words, the EU, China and Latin America get the oil, the foreign - owned oil companies get the profits and North Americans are left cleaning up oil spills and shouldering the pollution burden from extracting and refining the dirty tar sands.

«The dispersant chemicals used to clean up oil spills have the unintended effect of transforming crude oil into a toxic mist able to travel for miles and penetrate deep into human lungs, new research has found.»

In an ironic twist, Think Progress has just reported that a bizarre technicality in U.S. law allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleaning up oil spills like the one in Mayflower.

David Dickins, an engineer from San Diego who has spent 30 years studying how to clean up oil spills in icy waters, said that while the ice impeded the use of tools like booms that hold a slick in place, the ice also naturally contained the oil, giving response teams more time to act before environmental damage occurred.

A long time ago I saw an article on TV that was a claim that human hair was an affective resource for cleaning up oil spills in water.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

Cleaning up oil spills is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.

The sponges will be used to clean up oil spills, as well as diesel and oil buildup in ports and harbors.

Already other researchers are taking advantage of the slightly dissimilar properties of these two ultrathin materials to manipulate light or even soak up oil spills.

Genetically modified organisms show promise for everything from making vaccines to cleaning up oil spills.

The Australian Research Council supported the development of the boron nitride nanosheets, because, according to Chen, current methods of cleaning up oil spills are inefficient and unsophisticated — taking too long and causing ongoing and expensive damage.

In 2011, X Prize awarded the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge prize to a manufacturing team from the United States that developed technology for quickly cleaning up oil spills.

«Super-absorbent material soaks up oil spills.»

Researchers looking for a better way to clean up oil spills are taking a cue from the humble cactus.

Waste material generated by Malaysia's sago palm industry has potential for use as an adsorbent for cleaning up oil spills, according to a study published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology.

The technology was developed at WPI by a team led by Ali Rangwala, professor of fire protection engineering, as an outgrowth of research funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior aimed at assessing the feasibility of using in - situ burns to clean up oil spills in remote locations in the Arctic, where harsh weather can make it difficult to quickly mobilize clean - up equipment and crews.

Although typical fire tornadoes can be catastrophically unruly, researchers hope to harness their power for energy production and to clean up oil spills.

En masse, they form a mechanical multitude an order of magnitude larger than any robot swarm ever built — a possible precursor to future robot work squads choreographed for chores such as cleaning up oil spills.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

We don't yet know how to clean up oil spills in broken pack ice,» said Smith.

Future designer enzymes could serve needs unmet by biological evolution, such as cleaning up oil spills or manufacturing new drugs.

«I could easily imagine medusoids used in large numbers to clean up oil spills in a similar manner to the way a jellyfish filters out its food,» he adds.

«These could clean up oil spills all over the planet,» he says.

Mushrooms are potential miracle workers, capable of cleaning up oil spills and radioactive contamination, filtering bacteria - tainted wastewater, speeding reforestation of clear - cut woodlands, boosting agricultural yields, controlling insect pests and treating ailments ranging from cancer and bird flu to diabetes and dementia.

Swarms of the subs, able to carry 10 times their own volume, could help clean up oil spills.

But now those in the Niger delta say the fragile peace is under strain as the Nigerian government takes time to carry out reforms ranging from the construction of a maritime university to cleaning up oil spills.

In early 2017, the National Energy Board required Kinder Morgan Canada to maintain a line of credit of $ 500 million Canadian with its corporate parent to cover short - term costs to contain and clean up oil spills.

So, what are some of the techniques — both traditional and non-traditional — that could be used to clean up the oil spill?

MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Exxon Mobil Corp. says crews are working to contain and clean up an oil spill near Mayflower, Ark., after its Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday afternoon.

First, the method is agnostic as to what the money is spent on, so money spent cleaning up an oil spill looks remarkably similar to money spent building a new hospital or school in terms of economic impact.

I know Dawn has some unique cleaning features since that's what they asked for to help clean up the oil spill....

They also use various materials and methods to see what will best clean up an oil spill simulated in a 9 - by -9-inch pan.

«We took the liberty of putting up this oil spill challenge, being convinced that as soon as BP... began to realize what the gravity of the situation was, they would be looking for every possible solution from professional problem solvers they could find,» said Spradlin.

The challenges for cleaning up an oil spill in the Arctic are numerous.

The United States is not ready to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic, the head of the Coast Guard said yesterday.

It couldn't have been worse unless I were playing one of the Donkey Kong Country barrel cannon levels (yes I did, it failed worse than BP's early plans to plug up the oil spill).

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Hair and mushrooms probably aren't the first things to come to mind when you're preparing to clean up an oil spill.

Critics of Arctic drilling argue that given the extreme weather conditions, icy waters, and the remoteness of any oil well, it would currently be impossible to clean - up an oil spill adequately.