Gulf of Mexico

Not only is this taking place among the biodiversity living in its natural habitat that is now foreign, but the blaze is strong. The fire burns stories high. The fire burns powerful with no weakness. The fire burns. This is the reality of the Gulf of Mexico. The reality of the possibilities not all

Of the coral communities studied, at least half of the reefs were dead. This presents a huge problem for the entire ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico as coral reefs are the base of said ecosystem. Reefs provide organic matter and shelter for several benthic organisms (sponges, worms, clams, crabs, lobsters, etc.). The destruction of shelter poses threats to all of the organisms who live on coral reefs. There is no doubt that the leaking of 130 million gallons of oil threw off the ecosystem. As a base

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Every day individuals take the true beauty of our nation by visiting recreational areas along with beaches. Oil spills create nothing, but negative effects on the areas that it happens in. Many plants and animals are affected by this negative disaster which sickness the animals or some even die from it. Maybe if more time and money was spent working on having more efficient renewable energy sources than digging up a source of fuel that will eventually run out we would not

Graham Nickelson Intro Environmental Policy Krister Andersson 15 November 2014 Eutrophication in the Gulf of Mexico Seasonally, the Gulf region experiences eutrophication due to an overload of nutrients in the watershed. Over seventy percent of the nitrogen and phosphorus that ends up in the Gulf of Mexico originates from agriculture. The input of nutrients into the Gulf region causes a massive algal bloom. The algae take up all of the excess nutrients, and then die off. Decomposers then break

Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Imagine 2,500 to 68,000 square miles covered in 4.9 million barrels of oil. No, imagine being covered in 4.9 million barrels of oil. Picture yourself gasping for air in an ocean filled with oil. That is exactly what birds, sea turtles, dolphins, and other animals had to do after the most catastrophic oil spill of all time occurred on April 20, 2010. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico occurred because “oil from the well shot up and out of the drill column under high

place in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010. Twenty million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The second biggest oil spill took place in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico 1979. The third biggest oil spill took place in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Scientists have been trying to figure out how to minimize the number of oil spills. The biggest oil spill in history started on April 20th, 2010 by an oil ring called the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil ring

It was drilling the deepest oil well in US history, in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20th, 2010, there was an explosion on the oil rig that caused it to burn and sink. This resulted in the deaths of 11 workers, the injury of 16 others, and a massive oil spill. With a volume of 4.9 million barrels pumped into the gulf (“On Scene Coordinator Report Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill”), and a total covered area of 68 thousand square miles ("BP / Gulf Oil Spill"), it is considered the largest environmental disaster

as “dead zones” refers to decreased levels of oxygen in the water. Marine life die of suffocation due to the low oxygen concentration in these dead zones, which affects animal life in the ocean. These hypoxic zones occur particularly along the Gulf of Mexico, East Coast, and the Great Lakes. According to Cheryl Lyn Dybas, a journalist who specializes in marine sciences, stated that there are about 146 coastal dead zones worldwide (Dybas). In addition, since the 1960s the number of hypoxic zones has

The article I chose relates to the dead zone found in the Gulf of Mexico every year. There is a location in the Gulf of Mexico known as a hypoxic zone, which is an area with depleted oxygen levels. This is a result of nutrient run-off from the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin. The rivers receive a large amount of nutrients from many sources, including but not limited to, fertilizers from farmlands and golf courses, to urban runoff, sewer treatment plant discharge, and atmospheric nitrogen deposits

Principles Environmental Science Introduction Rig of the drilling Deep-water Horizon operated under British petroleum failed in its operation sinking below the seawater of the Gulf of Mexico on the 20th of April 2010. More than 11 workers lost their lives. After this incident, tons and tons of oil gushed from the main opening of the well, buried 1600 meters below the sea level. Necessary steps have been taken to take control on the spill but still there is much to handle when it comes to the