Shoreline assessments and overflights continued today as planned. As anticipated, areas of oil moved closer to the Chandeleur Islands today. With winds forecast from the north, this will tend to push the oil away from shore. However, the threat of oil impacting the coastline remains high. The Unified Area Command for the Deepwater Horizon/BP […]
By Justin Nobel05/23/2010 Grand Isle, Louisiana A semipalmated sandpiper pitter patters down the beach, feeding from sand laced with sticky red puddles of oil. The bird has red smeared across its flanks and face. Nearby, a flock of sanderlings pecks for worms and mollusks. The sand they’re feeding from is riddled with globs of oil […]
By Frank Pope It has been an hour since our sport-fishing boat started streaking through the freshly oil-soaked marshes of Pass a Loutre, but we’re still only halfway through the slick. Eighteen miles out and the stink of oil is everywhere. Rashes of red-brown sludge are smeared across vast swaths, between them a swell rendered […]
By Bob Marshall, The Times-PicayuneMay 23, 2010, 9:00AM For those saddened by the scenes of thick oil washing into Louisiana’s coastal wetlands a month after the BP oil disaster began, experts on oil spills and the coastal ecosystem have some advice: Get used to it. The crews mopping up oil on beaches and marsh shorelines […]
By Ben RainesMay 23, 2010, 6:15AM Scientists are worried that manatees moving along the Florida coast and headed for Mobile Bay could be swimming into trouble. A pod of manatees was seen and photographed off Destin, Fla., Thursday. There have been sightings in Orange Beach, Fowl River and Fairhope in the last two weeks, according […]
Nesting pelicans are seen landing as oil washes ashore on an island that is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseated spoonbills in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, May 22, 2010. Oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now impacting large […]
Written by WGNO ABC26 News | Friday, 21 May 2010 14:00 he situation in the gulf is getting so dire for some in the seafood industry, they’ve thought about committing suicide. Steps to intervene are underway. Desperation is setting in in Southeast Louisiana. “I spoke to a group of fishermen, mainly Vietnamese Americans and a […]
By MATTHEW BROWN (AP) NEW ORLEANS — The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire […]
Controlled burns are conducted in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to burn off some of the oil in the water, 19 May 2010. John Kepsimelis / U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters Gulf oil spill photo gallery Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America
CNN iReporters submit their ideas to solve the Gulf Coast oil disaster. CNN then asked Bill Nye to take a look. ‘Science Guy’ rates oil spill ideas Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico
