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UPDATE: It still flows. See below. This news still needs to be confirmed, but it is being reported by PBS’ News Hour that the new containment cap may have worked and the flow of oil info the Gulf of Mexico has been successfully stopped.…Read the full story on TreeHugger

This news still needs to be confirmed, but it is being reported that the new containment cap has worked and the flow of oil info the Gulf of Mexico has been successfully stopped. A message posted to the PBS News Hour Twitter feed read, “BREAKING: There does not appear to be oil flowing into the [...]

Photo: BP Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Riser Another week, another attempt by BP to plug the massive oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. This time they’re trying to use a containment dome to stop the oil from getting in the water (this one is called ‘Top Hat 10′ [...]

The newly-described Halieutichthys intermedius batfish. Image credit: Ho, Chakrabarty & Sparks Though the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most intensely studied marine environments on the planet, there is still room for discovery. Scientists have managed to discover and describe three new species of fish—all of which live in areas partially or completely covered [...]

Image via the AP The BP Gulf spill has no doubt brought plenty of scrutiny and debate to the practice of offshore drilling. But it still manages to be shocking when a figure like this emerges: according to an AP report, there are a staggering 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells throughout the Gulf of [...]

A tanker passing underneath one of the Bosphorus bridges. Photo by Jennifer Hattam The sight of dozens of mammoth tankers anchored off the coast of Istanbul, or of lone ones passing underneath the two high Bosphorus bridges as they steam their way to or from the Black Sea, is undeniably impressive. But in the wake [...]

BP oil spill protest in New Orleans, photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans via flickr It’s only been a few days since NOAA-backed scientists forecasting the size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone–that area of ocean so deprived of oxygen than little can live in it–mentioned that it wasn’t clear yet what effect the [...]

Image via Sports Illustrated Lest you think the economic damage from the BP spill be limited to the seafood trade, tourism, and such industries directly dependent on an un-oiled Gulf of Mexico, we turn to one of the more unlikely institutions that’s seen its business dry up in the wake of the disaster: Strip clubs. [...]

VENICE, Louisiana, June 25, 2010 (ENS) – Captain Mike Ellis is certain that when BP and the U.S. Coast Guard set fire to spilled oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to keep it from reaching… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

HOUSTON, Texas, June 23, 2010 (ENS) – More oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead today due to a problem with the containment cap over the leaking pipe…. Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.