A month after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform burned and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, Grand Isle, Louisiana was deluged with an orangish brown toxic mix of crude oil and dispersal agents sprayed into the spill in unprecedented volumes. The ‘hot zone’ is the designation for the area of the beach or wetlands that […]
This image, acquired on May 24, 2010 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft, shows oil from the former Deepwater Horizon rig encroaching upon several of Louisiana’s wildlife habitats. The source of the spill is located off the southeastern (bottom right) edge of the image. In Figure 1, the left-hand image […]
MIAMI — June 4, 2010 — Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately 1502 m. (4928 ft.), but not all of it reaches the sea surface. The stratified seawater of the Gulf of Mexico captures or slows the ascent […]
By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 4:15PM The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins […]
By The Associated PressJune 04, 2010, 11:34AM GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Small gobs of reddish brown oil washed up in the surf for the first time Friday on the public beach at Gulf Shores, where the scent of oil hung in the air. “You don’t smell the beach breeze at all,” said Wendi Butler, […]
By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 10:46AM By Seth Borenstein, AP Writer They are the ghastly images of a summer fouled before it started. Squawking seagulls and majestic brown pelicans coated in oil. Click. Gunk dripping from their beaks. Click. Big eyes wide open. Click. Even the professionals want to turn away. They can’t. “They […]
By Allen Powell II, The Times PicayuneJune 03, 2010, 7:15PM For the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana 46 days ago, oil began pushing into Barataria Bay in thick, heavy concentrations, prompting local officials to put out a call for more absorbant boom to combat its spread. Jefferson […]
By David Knowles With the the scope of the BP oil spill growing clearer with each passing day, a flood of images confirming the grim ramifications has begun swamping the airwaves. The following CNN clip, taken at Grand Isle, La., gets the Surge Desk’s vote for best capturing the growing sense of desperation along the […]
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel) Caught in the oil Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,bird decline,wetland,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM Here’s what President Obama didn’t see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds. “When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of […]
