On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on a British Petroleum (BP) Deep Water Horizon platform, and 2 days later, the platform collapsed. Eleven workers were killed, and oil has been gushing out ever since. Although the initial reports were that about 50,000 gal were being released per day, every few weeks, the estimates released to the American public increased, until in early June, the comp...

Freshwaters provide valuable habitat and important ecosystem services but are threatened worldwide by habitat loss and degradation. In Southeast Asia, rainforest streams are particularly threatened by logging and conversion to oil palm, but we lack information on the impacts of this on freshwater environmental conditions, and the relative importance of catchment versus riparian-scale disturbanc...

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 establishes liability for injuries to natural resources because of the release or threat of release of oil. Assessment of injury to natural resources resulting from an oil spill and development and implementation of a plan for the restoration, rehabilitation, replacement or acquisition of natural resources to compensate for those injuries is accomplished through th...

BACKGROUND The search for more eco-friendly acaricides has prompted testing of medicinal plants from botanical sources. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the eradication of house dust mites (HDM), Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, by direct contact using the essential clove oil (Eugenia caryophyllus). METHODS A pilot study was initiated to determine the killing power of clove oil. Synthetic fibers were i...

s, 2003). “Pipeline transportation of heavy/viscous crude oil as water continuous emulsion in North Cambay Basin” by Sharma et al. (SPE 39537, 1998). Historical Geography of the Holy Land, 26th edition (1st edition published in 1894) by Smith (Harper and Brothers, 1935). “The offshore heavy oil development challenges in Brazil” by Trindade and Branco (SPE 97381, 2005). “CSAMT mapping of a Utah ...

knowledge of the stand condition and the gradual replacement of tree species in different development stages and phases provide appropriate information related to the close to nature treatments. stem exclusion phase is one of the important development phases in the forest stands development. the aim of study was to analyze the characteristics of dead trees in the stem exclusion phase in the les...

Accepted : May, 2010 Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merill] is an important edible oilseed crop of Maharashtra, mostly grown in Marathwada region and continues to be the major source of protein and edible oil in the world. It yields more protein per hectare than most other crops and accounts for more than 63% of high protein meal and 28% of the total edible oil supply worldwide (Golbitz, 2000). The ...

Oil sludge (OS) is the toxic product of various oil refinery processes. biophytoremediation sustainable remediation efforts were conducted to reduce OS toxicity level and they also need be monitored through test. In this study, toxicants postbiophytoremediation for 24 months (OS ) 40 ), tested Daphnia magna. The test consisted Range Finding Test, acute chronic purpose research obtain LC50 value...

A northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) cetacean unusual mortality event (UME) involving primarily bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama began in February 2010 and continued into 2014. Overlapping in time and space with this UME was the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, which was proposed as a contributing cause of adrenal disease, lung disease, and poor healt...

investigations were carried out to evaluate the performance of direct injection diesel engine with medium grade low heat rejection (lhr) combustion chamber and 3 mm air gap insulated piston, 3 mm air gap insulated liner, and ceramic coated cylinder head [ceramic coating with the thickness of 500 µ was made on the inside portion of the cylinder head].the engine had different operating conditions...