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With no end in sight for the oil gushing from the explosion site at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, anxious US officials are looking to researchers who study the Gulf of Mexico and its idiosyncratic currents to help determine where all the oil is and where it might be heading.

Tuticorin: The Indian Coast Guard Station, Tuticorin, has organised a

Shores in undivided Dakshina Kannada are tainted by botches of oil deposit, which have left many unanswered questions in the minds of people.

This new paper by Donald A. Brown from Penn State University compares science and ethics of the Gulf Deepwater Horizon with the Climate Change. It argues that although the Gulf spill is a huge disaster, climate change is a huge moral failure leading to a worse environmental disaster.

Louisiana: US government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude.

BP moves to a new containment plan called the Lower Marine Riser Package Cap to siphon off the leaking oil to the surface, carried by remotely operated robots on the ocean floor
: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is probably "the biggest environmental disaster" that the United States has ever experienced, senior White House official Carol Browner said on Sunday.

AT a time when climate change is increasingly accepted as the world

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Washington: After 37 days of failing to halt a torrent of oil spilling from its damaged offshore rig into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers from rig owner British Petroleum and other agencies reportedly stemmed the flow using a

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