Gulf Coast of the United States

weather. Cline was the man in charge of the Texas Section of the new United States Weather Bureau in September of the year 1900. At this time, a hurricane ignored by Cline, swallowed the city of Galveston, Texas, leaving thousands dead. It can be argued that Cline was to blame for being so arrogant in not recognizing the inconsistent weather signs and acknowledging there was an unpreventable storm headed towards the Gulf Coast. However, the time of Cline’s upbringing and the moment in history…

concerning the environment. This oil spill occurred approximately forty-one miles off the coast of Louisiana, after a natural gas explosion ignited the rig. An estimated more than 60,000 gallons of oil spilled from this leakage. The intent of this paper is to highlight the effects seceding the oil spill, including key stakeholders negatively affected such as: property owners along the Southern coast of the United States of America; the seafood and fishing industry; the tourism industry; the…

transmitted diseases: safe sex. Taking all of the ways of transmission into account, it is important to combat them to prevent Zika from spreading. Zika has been found in multiple places in Florida and Georgia, and there have been five reported cases in the state of Alabama. Many think of it as a distant threat, but Zika is making its way into your backyard. With the threats it poses to expectant mothers, it must be stopped from spreading any…

damage.Another cause is the flooding. Some houses can get flooded by roof tops coming off when it’s raining. The main oceans that has hurricanes are the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico and the Hawaiian islands.The top 10 counties list mostly jibes with the three most hurricane-prone states in the country: Since 1851, the top three states for hurricane…

Gulfport area.” After hearing that, I said to everyone, “I want you to forgive me now, because I think I made a mistake. I’m afraid we’re all going to have to fight very hard not to die.” Hurricane Katrina was a hurricane that hit the gulf coast of the United States in 2005. The town most affected by this natural disaster was New Orleans. New Orleans is a town located under sea level and is protected from flooding by levees. When the levees broke it caused thousands to lose their lives…

Wetland loss is a vast problem in coastal Louisiana. From 1932 to 2010, approximately 4900 km2 of wetlands have disappeared from the Louisiana coast, mainly from erosion and, subsidence, and sediment depletion from the construction of levees, dams, and canals. The depletion of the barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico will allow for uninterrupted coastal erosion. With sea level rise expected to be a catalyst for coastal erosion throughout the 21st century, future land loss is projected to be…

communist lead regime of North Vietnam and allies against South Vietnam and the United States, lasting a total of just short of twenty years. Though an ally of the South Vietnamese, major United States involvement in the Conflict did not begin until Democratic Republic of Vietnam owned torpedo boats attacked two United States destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. History.com tells us that following this attack, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave then President Lyndon Johnson…

Democratic South Vietnam. During this time, President Eisenhower was in office, and both he and The United States were major contributors in the war against communism around the globe since they wanted to help countries set up the foundation of their own democracy. They were specifically targeting the Southeast-Asian countries because many were falling to communist Soviet-Russia and China. The United States tried to…

Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned since 2010. This pipeline is one of the largest oil lines in North America. The pipeline system has gone though three phases and now the great debate is to finish with the fourth and expand the pipeline. According to _____The first two phases have the capacity to deliver up to 590,000 barrels per day of oil into the Mid-West refineries. Phase three has capacity to deliver up to 700,000 barrels per…

Oil Drilling Regulations British Petroleum(BP) had a massive oil spill on April 20, 2010. In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of eighty seven days, making it the biggest oil spill in United States history. The initial oil rig explosion killed eleven people and injured seventeen others (“11 Facts”). The spill killed hundreds of animal, plant life and destroyed the environment. BP was penalized up to forty billion dollars in…