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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is the eleventh largest surface water body on Earth. A western arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an ocean basin mostly surrounded by the land, including the USA, Mexico and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the USA, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. Water enters the Gulf through the Yucatan Strait, circulates as the Loop Current, and exits through the Florida Strait eventually forming the Gulf Stream. Gulf fisheries are some of the most productive in the world, and the Gulf overlays some of the world's most abundant oil and gas resources.
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Long road to recovery: BP's drilling disaster,...
Date of Video: Nov. 3, 2010 Ongoing series by the Gulf Restoration Network documenting the environmental and community impacts of the BP disaster. Take action to support the Gulf... More »
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Oil hits home: BP's drilling disaster, Gulf...
Date of Video: Jun. 28, 2010 In the second month of the BP drilling disaster, Gulf Tides revisits the Atakapa-Ishak people of Grand Bayou Community, in lower Plaquemines Parish,... More »
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Tough times, tar balls, and tourists: BP's...
Date of Video: Jul. 18, 2010 As a signs of hope show up at the well-head, the impacts on coastal economies become more apparent for tourist-focused businesses, such as the... More »
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SoLa: Lousiana water stories (1:46)
Date of Video: Jul 2, 2010 Everywhere you look in Southern Louisiana (SoLa) there’s water – bayous, swamps, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico. And everyone... More »
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Fearing the future: BP's drilling disaster,...
Date of Video: May 23, 2010 As the BP oil drilling disaster slowly unfolds, coastal community leaders and fishermen fear the worst and demand the truth from BP. Gulf Restoration... More »
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Did Gulf spill boost "Dead Zone"? (3:34)
Date of Video: Oct. 25, 2010 Microbes consuming oil from the Gulf of Mexico's BP spill deplete oxygen levels when they die, raising the threat of an expanded "dead... More »
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Western Gulf coastal grasslands
The geophysical province of this the Western Gulf Coastal Grasslands ecoregion is a distinct ecosystem due to its more temperate climate, proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and... More »
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Oil spills in mangroves
Gulf of Mexico
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 21:41
The Gulf of Mexico is a western arm of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an ocean basin generally circumscribed by the land, including the USA, Mexico and the island of Cuba; it can be... More »
Atlantic Ocean
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 19:32
The Atlantic Ocean sits in an S-shaped basin that runs in a north-south direction, bounded by Europe and Africa on the east and by North and South America on the west. An ocean... More »
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Ocean
Last Updated on 2013-02-28 at 18:54
Introduction
Seen from space, our planet's surface appears to be dominated by the color blue. The Earth appears blue because large bodies of saline water known as... More »
Western Gulf coastal grasslands
Last Updated on 2012-08-31 at 15:25
The geophysical province of this the Western Gulf Coastal Grasslands ecoregion is a distinct ecosystem due to its more temperate climate, proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and... More »
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Sea water
Last Updated on 2012-08-23 at 02:02
Sea Water
If there is one thing that just about everyone knows about the ocean is that it is salty. The two most common elements in sea... More »
United States experience in the deepwater Gulf of...
Last Updated on 2012-08-16 at 07:03
Presented by Carolita Kallaur, Associate Director, Minerals Management Service at the Institute of Petroleum's International Conference on Deepwater Exploration and Production in... More »
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