Scientists have found a decline in oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill but have found no “dead zones” as a result, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday.
Also tagged atmospheric, but-have, dead-zones, following-the, have-found, national, national-oceanographic, oil-spill, oxygen-levels, tuesdayA tropical depression in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is creeping toward Mexico and the United States and could bring substantial rainfall, officials said.
Also tagged and-the, bring-substantial, creeping-toward, officials-said, southwestern, the-southwestern, tropical-depression, united, united-statesBP began operations to remove its failed blowout preventer from atop its well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Friday.
Also tagged atop-its, began-operations, below-the, below-the-gulf, failed-blowout, friday, gulf, preventer-from, remove-its, well-deepThe gunman who held three people hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters was once convicted of smuggling an illegal immigrant into the country from Mexico.
Also tagged country, country-from, discovery, discovery-channel, held-three, hostage-at-the, illegal-immigrant-, into-the, into-the-country, people-hostageA fire on a well connected to an oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday is out and there is no indication of an oil sheen, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Also tagged a-well-connected, coast-guard, gas-production, guard, gulf, mexico-on-thursday, oil-and, oil-sheen, out-and, thursday, well-connectedThe State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere by September 10 because of heightened security concerns stemming from drug-related violence.
Also tagged children, concerns-stemming, friday, from-drug-related, government-employees, heightened-security, monterrey, send-their, september, state, state-departmentThree weeks after BP plugged its crippled Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico with cement and mud from above, crews are “fishing” for pieces of drill pipe that need to be removed from inside the well’s blowout preventer before crews can move on to the “bottom kill” — the permanent fix for the well.
Also tagged bottom-kill, crews-are, for-pieces, gulf, inside-the, inside-the-well, oil-well, plugged-its, weeks-afterFederal and state experts have declared Mississippi oysters safe to eat after the oil spill that gushed for months in the Gulf of Mexico.
Also tagged after-the-oil, and-state, eat-after, experts-have, gulf, gushed-for, mississippi, oysters-safe, the-oilA new study finds oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from a ruptured BP well degraded at a rate that was “much faster than anticipated” thanks to the interaction of microbes with the oil particles.
Also tagged finds-oil, gulf, interaction, new-study-, spilled-into, the-interaction, well-degraded, with-the-oilThe man poised to take control of personal and business claims from those affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster said Sunday he plans to be more generous than any court would be in determining payments.
Also tagged business-claims, gulf, man-poised, more-generous, oil-disaster, personal-and, sunday, take-control