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 […]
June 03, 2010 BOULDER—A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer. The modeling results are captured in a series of dramatic animations produced by the […]
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 Press-RegisterJune 03, 2010, 3:57PM U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has declared a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico due to the economic impact on commercial and recreational fisheries from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Locke has added Florida to the earlier determination area announced May 24 for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi […]
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 […]
By David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, June 2, 2010; 8:18 PM DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Pancake-sized blobs of oil have begun washing ashore in this barrier-island beach town, as significant amounts of oil from the BP spill make landfall in new places far to the east of Louisiana. The oil appeared on this 14-mile […]
