Book
Oil spill : disaster / written by Mona Chiang, Cody Crane, Karina Hamalainen, and Lynda Jones.
Explores the immediate and future consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in April 2010, when the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, causing major environmental and economical damage along the Gulf coast of the United States.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780545317764
- ISBN: 0545317762
- Physical Description: 31 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The worst environmental disaster America has ever faced -- Catastrophic records -- Who needs oil? -- Black gold -- The world's oil -- Drilling deep in the Gulf -- Disaster strikes -- Oil spill -- Environmental damage -- Operation: Spill Control -- Animals under threat -- Wildlife rescue -- Stopping the spill -- Innovative solutions -- Think about it. |
