An important part of examining natural hazards is looking at the human environment interaction in all stages; before, during and after the event. CNN recently published an article that does a good job explaining the clean-up efforts post BP oil spill. The article is interesting because it discusses new technology that is being put into place to best mitigate further negative effects of the oil spill.
We all know the story of the BP oil spill but after the hole was plugged not much was nationally broadcast of the cleanup efforts, nor is it probably finished. Obviously the spill was ecological nightmare that nobody wants to repeat. That is where Massachusetts Institute of Technology comes in. They saw this disaster and wanted to mitigate future ocurrances of such disasters. MIT thought of putting magnetic particles into our oil so that when an oil spill happens we could easily filter the oil out of the water using magnets, returning clean water to the sea and the oil could be used again for its original purposes.
This new tehnology would be useful in the cleanup process for future oil spills and would hopefully mitigate the hazards to the wildlife and physical environment in case of a spill.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/21/tech/oil-spill-magnets/index.html
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