{"id":11467,"date":"2010-08-19T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2198"},"modified":"2010-08-19T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:50:20","slug":"researchers-detected-22-mile-hydrocarbon-plume-in-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/researchers-detected-22-mile-hydrocarbon-plume-in-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers detected 22-mile hydrocarbon plume in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tScientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said they detected a plume of hydrocarbons in June that was at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>\tAccording to the institution, the 1.2-mile-wide, 650-foot-high plume of trapped hydrocarbons provides at least a partial answer to recent questions asking where all the oil has gone as surface slicks shrink and disappear.<\/p>\n<p>\t[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\tWhether the plume&#8217;s existence poses a significant threat to the Gulf is not yet clear, the researchers say. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know how toxic it is,&#8221; Reddy said in a statement, &#8220;and we don&#8217;t know how it formed, or why. But knowing the size, shape, depth, and heading of this plume will be vital for answering many of these questions.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/08\/19\/gulf.oil.plume\/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn#fbid=lUMr4uowayV&#038;wom=false\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said they detected a plume of hydrocarbons in June that was at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to the institution, the 1.2-mile-wide, 650-foot-high plume of trapped &#8230; <a title=\"Researchers detected 22-mile hydrocarbon plume in Gulf\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/19\/researchers-detected-22-mile-hydrocarbon-plume-in-gulf\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}