Tag: Gulf of Mexico
Why tornadoes are still hard to forecast – even though storm...
Chris Nowotarski, Texas A&M University
As a deadly tornado headed toward Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on March 24, 2023, forecasters...
Next US energy boom could be wind power in the Gulf...
Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin and Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin
With passage of...
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a...
Nick Shay, University of Miami
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is...
Some coastal areas are more prone to devastating hurricanes – a...
Athena Masson, University of Florida
Every coastline in the North Atlantic is vulnerable to tropical storms, but some areas...
A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution...
Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University
Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind...
BP paid a steep price for the Gulf oil spill but...
David M. Uhlmann, University of Michigan
The largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history began ten years ago, on April 20, 2010. A massive explosion...
Coastal fish populations didn’t crash after the Deepwater Horizon spill –...
F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released 4 to 5 million barrels of oil into...
Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fishes’...
Steven Murawski, University of South Florida and Sherryl Gilbert, University of South Florida
Over the decade since the Deepwater Horizon spill, thousands of scientists have...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
