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Did you know that the oil from a single automobile engine can produce an eight-acre oil slick, and a single quart of motor oil can contaminate as much as two million gallons of drinking water? Many of the chemicals needed to run your car, such as anti-freeze, battery fluid, gasoline and motor oil, are poisonous [...]

Mobile Bay is home to a number of threatened and endangered species, including the American Bald Eagle, five species of sea turtle, sperm whales, bottlenose dolphins and the West Indian manatee. All of these animals can be negatively impacted by poor water quality in the Bay. Viewer Tip: Please don’t dump paints, oil, antifreeze or [...]

The Mississippi and Mobile-Tensaw river basin provides critical habitat for songbirds migrating over the Gulf of Mexico, which stop there for rest and re-nourishment after their long flights. In addition, the basin provides habitat for colonial nesting birds, large aggregations of sea birds and wading bids that nest together and feed on fish. The U.S. [...]

Because Galveston Bay Watershed is home to Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., water pollution is of special concern in this area. When it rains, rainwater carries a variety of pollutants from city surfaces into storm drains, rivers and bayous that eventually reach the Bay. These “non-point” sources of pollution include runoff from gas [...]

Oil spills can severly harm the environment and have impacts on humans as well! In July of 2008, 419,000 gallons of #6 fuel oil were spilled into the Mississippi River when a chemical tanker collided with a fuel barge. Fuel #6 is thick and dark, and it is estimated that only five to ten percent [...]