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The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)

The spill in the Gulf of Mexico left behind enormous destruction and damages, some of which are irreversible. Photo: Green Fire Productions, Flickr

Oil-degrading bacteria

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

Energy and environment - biological decomposition

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The sun sets above the smog line in Shanghai, China. From Wikipedia

The environment does not wait

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

We haven't finished with one oil slick yet and there are already several more

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Installing the concrete dome on BP's leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on July 11, 2010. PR photo: BP

British Petroleum: We managed to seal the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico

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British Petroleum personnel struggle with the oil spill, April 2010. Photo: National Geographic for the film broadcast on May 8

Disaster statistics

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The attempts to fight the oil spill from the British Petroleum drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, April 2010. Photo: National Geographic showing the film on June 8

The University of Texas prepared a three-dimensional model of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with the help of a supercomputer

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

The Black Bay

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