On October 10, 2019, SkyTruth discovered yet another likely bilge dumping incident in Southeast Asian waters. We identified the potential culprit as the Lumoso Aman, a bulk cargo carrier, through AIS (Automatic Identification System) broadcasts.
We’re all accustomed to seeing maps of the terrestrial spaces we occupy, our oceans are much more mysterious places.
[This is a guest post about the ongoing Taylor Energy oil spill from Dr. Ian MacDonald, oceanographer at Florida State University. Ian helped SkyTruth make independent estimates of the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 that dwarfed the estimates told to the public by BP.] As recently as two days ago — […]
In October 2018, The Washington Post ran a story describing the ongoing, 14-year-long leak of crude oil from hurricane-damaged wells at the former location of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by a company called Taylor Energy. The article stated that — based on the latest scientific estimates of the leak rate […]
Last week, SkyTruth made an appearance on Netflix when their show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj used our interactive map of oil spills reported in the Gulf of Mexico in the years following the BP / Deepwater Horizon disaster. To learn more about the ongoing 14-year Taylor Energy leak that was the focus of this […]