oil spill (Page 3)

Seafood from the Gulf is OK – Did the BP oil spill contaminate Gulf Coast seafood? After receiving a shipment of Louisiana seafood samples collected by a reporter with “Good Morning America,” Texas researchers found NO evidence of petroleum hydrocarbons.
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Something we can’t let ourselves forget is that companies are always trying to make a profit, sometimes in nefarious ways. Instead of simply exploiting the environment, companies may be able to make a profit helping to SAVE it.
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UPDATE: Worst bird colony devestation found – When it comes to the oil spill, we think we know what’s happening to the birds, but since they can’t tell us, we need to figure it out for ourselves.

As oil washes ashore along the Gulf Coast, ornithologists are asking bird watchers to keep an eye on nesting birds–not just near water, but hundreds of miles inland. Researcher Laura Burkholder says, “Wildlife biologists are monitoring species such as pelicans and plovers in the immediate path of the oil. But we need bird watchers across the country to help us find out if birds that pass through or winter in the Gulf region carry contamination with them, possibly creating an ‘oil shadow’ of declines in bird reproduction hundreds of miles from the coast.”
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Tar balls have landed on a beach in Galveston, Texas, meaning oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has now hit all 5 Gulf states. It turns out that sand naturally cleans itself, but the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be too much for it. Scientists are investigating how quickly the oil carried into Gulf of Mexico beach sands is being degraded by the sands’ natural microbial communities, and whether native oil-eating bacteria that wash ashore with the crude are helping or hindering that process.
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