Gulf of Mexico

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was a carbonaceous asteroid

This asteroid, which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, came from a C-type asteroid that originated beyond Jupiter, thus ruling out other hypotheses such as volcanic activity or comets
The robotic arm of the underwater vehicle plucks the oysters from the seabed. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen.

Get to know the oysters that will help clean up oil spills

The oil slick that leaked from Deepwater_Horizon, as seen from NASA's Terra satellite on May 24, 2010

Energy and environment - biological decomposition

The spreading slick in the Gulf of Mexico as photographed by NASA's Aqua satellite on April 29, 2010

The Black Bay