BP石油泄漏五年后:它如何影响了你?

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2010年4月20日,墨西哥湾马孔多油井发生井喷,导致英国石油公司运营的深水地平线石油钻井平台沉没。11人死亡。从海底突出的井口向海洋喷涌出数百万加仑的原油。这些石油广泛扩散,杀死了微生物和大型动物,破坏了海岸线,并损害了沿岸社区的经济。关于为分解石油而散布的大量化学物质是在造成伤害还是有益,引发了争论。

石油泄漏的一些影响仍在持续。就在上周,美国国家野生动物联合会发布了一份报告,指出在2014年,路易斯安那州海岸仍然发现比平时多得多的海豚死亡。另一个表明情况没有恢复正常的迹象是肯氏海龟巢穴的减少。


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石油泄漏后,英国石油公司派出了数千名清理人员、数千艘船只和数千公里的石油围堵栅栏。然而,一位联邦法官现在才准备裁定英国石油公司和其他参与海湾运营的公司是否违反了《清洁水法案》。在等待期间,生活、工作和在海湾地区游玩的人们试图恢复并继续前进:在阿拉巴马州海岸正在建造约 160 公里的牡蛎礁,以保护邻近的栖息地并改善水质。佛罗里达州正在修复沙丘并种植海草。政府、企业和社区团体正在努力推进其他项目,参与者在最近的一次峰会上将这些项目称为“随机的修复行为”。

在事故五周年之际,《大众科学》邀请读者记录恢复的成功和失败。请向我们发送您拍摄的动物、海岸线或社区的照片和视频,这些照片和视频确实正在恢复——以及那些没有恢复的。并告诉我们石油泄漏如何继续影响您的生活和生计。我们将发布您的贡献,作为周年报道的一部分。 

 

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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