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Philippe Lebaron and Sabine Matallana-Surget position their experiments near Pensacola Beach, Fla.
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Ocean Pollution Makes Microbes Adapt

by Martin J. Kernan 18 March 202418 March 2024

Some bacteria thrive in the sometimes-toxic soup of crude oil and chemical dispersants.

Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010
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Ninety Percent of the World’s Oil Slicks Are Caused by Humans, Not Nature

by Katharine Gammon 19 August 202224 March 2023

Researchers were surprised to find exactly how many oil slicks were due to human activity, highlighting the need for people to pay attention to runoff and leaks.

Israeli soldiers clean tar from the beaches in February 2021 after oil from a spill in the eastern Mediterranean washed ashore.
Posted inFeatures

Seeing Through Turbulence to Track Oil Spills in the Ocean

by Guillermo García-Sánchez, Ana M. Mancho, Antonio G. Ramos, Josep Coca and Stephen Wiggins 18 August 202225 January 2023

After oil and tar washed up on eastern Mediterranean beaches in 2021, scientists devised a way to trace the pollution back to its sources using satellite imagery and mathematics.

Oleoducto en el sitio de derrame de petróleo Bemidji en Minnesota
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Los microbios podrían comer minerales magnéticos en un sitio de derrame de petróleo

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 7 June 20227 June 2022

Nuevos experimentos en un antiguo sitio de derrames de petróleo en Minnesota sugieren que los procesos no biológicos por sí solos no pueden explicar la disminución de la magnetización.

Installation of new pipeline through the Bemidji oil spill site in Minnesota
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Microbes Might Munch Magnetic Minerals at Oil Spill Site

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 19 May 20227 June 2022

New experiments at an old oil spill site in Minnesota suggest that nonbiological processes alone may not account for decreased magnetization.

An aerial shot of a crew cleaning up an oil spill in a river
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El Oleoducto Keystone Derrama 9,120 Barriles de Petróleo en los Humedales de Dakota

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 December 202022 March 2023

La fuga tuvo lugar en una sección pre-existente del oleoducto Keystone. Este es el cuarto derrame del oleoducto en 9 años.

An aircraft releases chemical dispersant on 5 May 2010 over oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
Posted inFeatures

¿Por Qué la Luz Solar es Importante para los Derrames de Petróleo en el Mar?

by Collin P. Ward, C. M. Reddy and E. B. Overton 6 October 202018 May 2022

Una década de investigación desde el desastre de Deepwater Horizon ha revelado cómo la luz solar—su importancia subestimada durante mucho tiempo en la ciencia de derrames de petróleo—altera sustancialmente el petróleo que flota en la superficie del mar.

Underwater photograph of a tank experiment designed to observe how diesel oil behaves when leaking from a pipe
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The Underwater Behavior of Oil and Gas Jets and Plumes

by M. C. Boufadel and S. A. Socolofsky 1 September 202031 July 2023

Exploring how the multiscale interaction between underwater oil and gas plumes and the environment impacts plume composition and trajectory.

Candidatus Macondimonas diazotrophica visible both inside and around the edges of oil droplets
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Deepwater Horizon: La Plataforma Petrolera y el Surgimiento de las Técnicas Ómicas

by J. Kostka, S. B. Joye and Rita R. Colwell 29 May 202018 May 2022

Las técnicas de genómica microbiana llegaron a su madurez después del derrame de Deepwater Horizon, ofreciendo a los investigadores una visión incomparable de cómo los ecosistemas responden a tales desastres ambientales.

An aircraft releases chemical dispersant on 5 May 2010 over oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico
Posted inFeatures

Why Sunlight Matters for Marine Oil Spills

by Collin P. Ward, C. M. Reddy and E. B. Overton 28 April 202018 May 2022

A decade of research since the Deepwater Horizon disaster has revealed how sunlight—its importance long understated in oil spill science—substantially alters petroleum floating at the sea surface.

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