BP石油洩漏五年後:它如何影響了你?

請傳送照片、影片和故事,說明您的海岸和社群如何從深水地平線石油洩漏中恢復——或者沒有恢復

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2010年4月20日,墨西哥灣馬孔多油井發生井噴,導致英國石油公司運營的深水地平線石油鑽井平臺沉沒。11人死亡。從海底突出的井口向海洋噴湧出數百萬加侖的原油。這些石油廣泛擴散,殺死了微生物和大型動物,破壞了海岸線,並損害了沿岸社群的經濟。關於為分解石油而散佈的大量化學物質是在造成傷害還是有益,引發了爭論。

石油洩漏的一些影響仍在持續。就在上週,美國國家野生動物聯合會釋出了一份報告,指出在2014年,路易斯安那州海岸仍然發現比平時多得多的海豚死亡。另一個表明情況沒有恢復正常的跡象是肯氏海龜巢穴的減少。


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石油洩漏後,英國石油公司派出了數千名清理人員、數千艘船隻和數千公里的石油圍堵柵欄。然而,一位聯邦法官現在才準備裁定英國石油公司和其他參與海灣運營的公司是否違反了《清潔水法案》。在等待期間,生活、工作和在海灣地區遊玩的人們試圖恢復並繼續前進:在阿拉巴馬州海岸正在建造約 160 公里的牡蠣礁,以保護鄰近的棲息地並改善水質。佛羅里達州正在修復沙丘並種植海草。政府、企業和社群團體正在努力推進其他專案,參與者在最近的一次峰會上將這些專案稱為“隨機的修復行為”。

在事故五週年之際,《大眾科學》邀請讀者記錄恢復的成功和失敗。請向我們傳送您拍攝的動物、海岸線或社群的照片和影片,這些照片和影片確實正在恢復——以及那些沒有恢復的。並告訴我們石油洩漏如何繼續影響您的生活和生計。我們將釋出您的貢獻,作為週年報道的一部分。 

 

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 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: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 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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