New Evidence Suggests the Oil Spill in the Gulf Could only be the Beginning
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Could it be true that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is only the beginning of what is being touted as possibly the worst possible natural disaster known to man? New evidence was unearthed during the week by U.S. scientists that indicate the warnings which surfaced as long as a year before the BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe occurred may well be true.
它是否真的墨西哥灣油溢只是一個，被吹捧為人類已知的自然災害可能是最壞的開始？新的證據在這星期內由美國科學家出土，指出那久至BP深水地平線大災難發生一年前蒲面的警告，可能是真的。
Unknown to the majority of the public, this particular area that was chosen by the BP geologists has been described as unstable and even dangerous due to the possible super sized methane beds embedded deep in the earths crust. Some geologists believed this to be so and voiced their opinions early on in the piece, but to no avail.
對大多數未知的市民，這被BP地質學家選擇的特別地區，已被形容為不穩定和甚至是危險的，由於可能超大面積的甲烷床深深嵌入地殼。一些地質學家相信這是如此的，和早前發出他們的反對意見，但都是徒然的。
Now 12 scientists from the Texas A&M University who have been running tests in the area within a 5 mile radius of the drill site, have found levels of methane in the ocean that are through the roof. In some pockets of the ocean the concentrations of methane gas levels are up to 100,000 times the norm and even more incredibly up to 1 million times higher.
現在12名來自德克薩斯州A與M大學的科學家，他們一直在該地區(井點5哩半徑範圍內)進行測試，已在通過頂部的海洋中發現各級的甲烷。在一些海洋的礦囊，甲烷氣體水平的濃度高達標準的 10萬倍，和甚至更令人難以置信地高達 100萬次更高。
The effect of these levels of methane gas on the ocean can be devastating, as it depletes the oxygen in the water, and at these levels scientists say they could create a dead zone. Oxygenated water is crucial to sustaining marine life and in some close by areas of the well, it has found to have dropped by 30 percent.
在海洋上這些甲烷氣體水平的影響可以是災難性的，因為它消耗水中的氧氣，並在這些水平科學家說他們可以創造一個死亡區域。含氧海水對維持海洋生物是至關重要的，和井的一些附近地區，它已發現已經下降30%。
As carbon dioxide is a by product of breathing in air, so methane is a natural by product of a breathing living ocean that is filled with life. Science has since proven that where higher concentrations of methane gas exist, there is a common side effect which occurs. The smaller microbes out grow the marine life dramatically and end up consuming much more oxygen.
Another factor that would contribute to positive signs of a large methane gas reservoir would be cracks or fissures appearing on the ocean bed near the capped well opening. The appearance of these cracks is now becoming evident from footage sent up by the underwater robots working on the damaged well.
Fissures of gas eruptions entering the ocean are also being reported further along the outer radius of the drill site. Scientists are still crunching the numbers on the data they have collected over the recently completed 10 day research expedition. More available facts should come to light within the week.
http://www.news4us.com/new-evidence-suggests-the-oil-spill-in-the-gulf-could-only-be-the-beginning/22509/
生物學家找到'死亡區域' 在墨西哥灣BP油溢周圍
Biologists find 'dead zones' around BP oil spill in Gulf
Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists.
甲烷在10萬倍於正常水平已在創造氧氣耗盡區，根據兩個獨立的科學家。
Suzanne Goldenberg,
US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 30 June 2010 19.49 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/30/biologists-find-oil-spill-deadzones
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