We can see the oil and its toxicity is a worry in the short run but not as much in the long run. Acute effects show the change of a certain part of an ecosystem and how they can be affected by major disasters. Society’s worries about toxicity is perhaps inflated and shouldn’t be concerned with the future of mother nature to its…
With methods such as fracking being used to excavate the oil that is used today, damage done to the environment and different species of animals is inevitable with controversial methods. As an example of damage done to the environment, a very impactful incident which affected the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. The Deepwater Horizon was an oil rig which exploded and caused massive damage among the surrounding…
Green, J., and Trett, M.W. (1989). The Fate and Effects of Oil in Freshwater. New York, NY: Elsevier Applied Science.…
When waste is spilled into the ocean it spreads throughout the water harming marine life and their habitat. It can affect their hearing, changes in their behavior and can even cause physical injuring or death. Much of the marine life is threatened by extinction. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has threatens our planet with environmental damage. Oil spills like this fill the air with toxins that raise concern for many health problems. When oil is recovered from the ocean floor chemicals and toxins come to the surface, which are the released into the air. This is a growing concern and should not be dismissed.…
The production of oil can cause severe damage to the environment. Oil waste dumping and oil spills cause serious damage on surrounding wildlife and habitat. The oil production has already harmed many land, air, and sea animal and plant species. The oil pollutes water and kills fish. The production of oil can also affect human life. The damage can include pollution of drinking water, livestock and health of the human body itself.…
The hazards for wildlife include toxic effects of exposure or ingestion, injuries such as smothering and deterioration of thermal insulation, and damage to their reproductive systems and behaviors. Long-term ecological effects that contaminate or destroy the marine organic substrate and thereby interrupt the food chain are also harmful to the wildlife, so species populations may change or disappear”. The article meant that a lot of species that had been swimming, sitting , or even breathing in the oil had taken a turn for the worst and had been badly injured or most likely died which is one of the major effects that could continue to grow if nothing is…
Spilled oil can clog and coat animals and suffocate or poison them. It can also destroy beaches and fragile marine ecosystems.…
There are health issues and problems resulting from the spill. In the Alumina simulation, the family claims Alumina’s actions are the cause of the child’s leukemia. In the case of the BP oil spill, the health problems and risks are being reviewed. Many residents of the Gulf coastline are…
The Oil Spill, due to the mismanaged oil drilling by British Petroleum (BP), in the Gulf of Mexico, has turned into one of the worst environmental disasters to happen to an ocean ecosystem of all time. Although many people only notice the effects on the hydrosphere, which include the oil going almost a mile deep under the sea, destroying the sediment and rock on the ocean floor, as well as disrupting coastal patterns, many have not realized the drastic effects on the biosphere because of this catastrophic event. The BP oil spill is viewed as the largest decimation of ocean wild life known to man, as well as also killing human lives in the process. Entire ecosystems have been affected in the process, harming animals like whales, dolphins, fish species, pelicans, seagulls, sea turtles, etc., several of which are already endangered. This destruction of wildlife has also lead to a slowdown in many fishing industries, further affecting human life, and causing severe poverty for those who rely on such business to survive. Even if some of the animals did survive, the trauma faced from this experience will lead to reproductive problems, or most likely, death. Even though life is returning back to the Gulf, the damage done can never be replaced, and the area will never be the same.…
This Gulf Oil Spill happened to have negative effects on countless animals. For example, birds were layered with sheets of oil, consuming oil, and food deprived. “Oil coated birds’ feathers, causing birds to lose their buoyancy and the ability to regulate body temperature” ("How Does the BP Oil Spill Impact Wildlife and Habitat? - National Wildlife Federation."). Since the birds then cannot regulate body temperature, the birds have a high chance of overheating or becoming very cold. This exposes the birds to dangerous situations that could and are lethal. Unable to fly, the birds cannot catch fish swimming in the water therefore; the birds are deprived of food. Hungry, the birds will try to oust the oil from its feathers, resulting in consuming the oil, which then is harmful to the digestive system. As you can see in the photograph below, the bird is coated in oil and has oil…
Oil spills happen all over the world. However, The United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, and other industrialized countries use oil for great quantities. On March of 1089, the Exxon Valdez an oil tanker went aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. 11 million gallons of oil spilled out of that tanker and went into the ocean. Most of the oil spills happen because of humans, an example oil is poured into drains and then enters the sewer and exits into the ocean.the Exxon Valdez went aground because the man steering the boat didn’t follow the order of changing course. Most spilles are from bad equipment or old ships.oil spilles are dangerous to marine animals.Similarly, fish abd bottom-dewellers may have an experience of an…
April 20, of 2010 a BP’s oil rig Deep water Horizon had blown up out in the Gulf of Mexico. It had killed 11 people and let more the 200 million gallon of oil into the ocean water. The oil spill had damaged over 1,000 miles of the shore lines. A study was done by the Center for Biological diversity and it had shown that over 82,000 birds, nearly 6,000 sea turtles, over 26,000 marine mammals, that includes dolphins, and a large unknown massive number of fish had been harmed by the oil spill and the aftermath of it. (Sakashita, N.D.) The oil spill lasted for about 3 months and in that 3 months did a very large amount of damage.…
(NaturalNews) It's true the almost five million barrels of oil that contaminated the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill was an ecological nightmare. And residents of the area have complained for the last two years that the chemicals dumped into the area as an ill-thought-out solution have made many of them sick. But what about the ocean itself that has been treated as an experimental chemical dump by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and corporate giant BP?…
Does Competitive Sport Fishing Affect the Environment? Competition game fishing has been a past time and love of many people. Competition fishing has long been a controversy as to the effects on the environment.…
The Petrotrin oil spill has had an adverse effect on this diverse ecosystem. The spill has put the country’s marine and freshwater animals that inhabit the bodies of water near the Pointe-a-Pierre base, such as Queen’s beach, Coffee beach and the Caribbean Ocean, in harm’s way. Several fishermen have reported seeing many oil-soaked birds as seen in the picture below, as well as many dead fish near beaches close to the oil spill.…