Mass losses of wildlife feared as oil slick approaches

Birds, marine animals are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting from last week’s explosion Agence France-Presse2010-05-03 12:00 AM Its long, brown neck held firmly in a blue towel, the northern gannet struggled for freedom, unaware of how very lucky it is to have been found swimming in a sea of oil off the Louisiana coast. […]

Gulf of Mexico spill flow rate ‘could increase 10 times’

  (AFP) The US Coast Guard now fears the underwater oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of litres of oil a day, the Mobile Press-Register reported on Saturday. Citing a confidential National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report on the unfolding spill disaster, the Alabama newspaper […]

Graph of the Day: Projected Oil Spill Path Due To Gulf Loop Current

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Surface area of Gulf oil spill has tripled

By CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR (AP) VENICE, La. — The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago. The newly named federal point man for the oil spill […]

Storms threaten protection efforts as Gulf of Mexico oil spill comes ashore

By The Associated Press April 30, 2010, 11:47AM MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico oozed into Louisiana’s ecologically rich wetlands today as storms threatened to frustrate desperate protection efforts. Crews in boats patrolled coastal marshes early today looking for areas where the oil has flowed […]

Deepwater Horizon oil slick to hit US coast within hours

By Chris McGreal in Washington, Terry Macalister and Adam Gabbatt  www.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 April 2010 20.16 BST The United States mobilised its military tonight in an attempt to help deal with the vast oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico amid predictions that it will begin to hit the Louisiana coast within hours and […]

Gulf oil spill flowing five times faster than first estimated; new leak found

By ROBERT, Louisiana, April 28, 2010 (ENS) – There is five times as much oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon’s undersea wellhead than was originally thought, a Coast Guard official said late tonight. Rear Adm. Mary Landry, the federal on-scene coordinator for the oil rig disaster, told reporters that based […]

Gulf spill may be ‘one of the most significant oil spills in US history’

By ALLEN JOHNSONApril 28, 2010 – 11:00AM The Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response has warned. BP, which leases the Deepwater Horizon platform, has been operating four robotic submarines some 1500 […]

Image of the Day: Oil Spill from the Deepwater Horizon

Caption by Rebecca Lindsey An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day were leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in late April, following an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The rig eventually capsized and sank. These images of the affected area were captured on April 25 […]

Oil may spew for months after rig blast

By BRETT CLANTONHOUSTON CHRONICLEApril 25, 2010, 9:16AM A slow-motion environmental disaster may be in the making with the discovery Saturday that 42,000 gallons a day of crude oil is spewing from a well on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico near where a huge drilling rig sank last week — and it could be […]

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