By Staff WritersWestwego, Louisiana (AFP) May 25, 2010 The fast-encroaching oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is forcing fish merchants to close one by one in Louisiana’s huge Westwego seafood market. “I’m closed because I couldn’t get any crabs,” said Michelle Chauncey, who pulled down her stall’s rolling metal door on Friday. Along the […]
By Juliet Eilperin and David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, May 27, 2010 ON BARATARIA BAY, LA. — In the Louisiana marsh, oil-coated pelicans flap their wings in a futile attempt to dry them. A shorebird repeatedly dunks its face in a puddle, unable to wash off. Lines of dead jellyfish float in the gulf, […]
A tawny water fowl that lived in a tiny corner of Madagascar has officially been declared extinct by conservationists. The Alaotra grebe, also called the rusty grebe, had been highly vulnerable as it was found only in Lake Alaotra, eastern Madagascar, according to the Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles […]
By Bob Marshall, The Times-PicayuneMay 25, 2010, 6:37PM To most of us, an oyster is a morsel from heaven smiling from its open shell or resting on a cloud of French bread. But to researcher Earl Melancon, it is much more. The oyster is to Louisiana’s estuaries what the fabled canary was to coal mine […]
The MODIS / Terra satellite image of the Gulf taken yesterday (May 24, 2010) is a relatively cloud-free look at the ongoing oil spill in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Areas covered by oil slick and sheen are marked with a solid orange line. Areas where we think there may be slicks and sheen, but […]
By Drew Jubera, Special to CNNMay 25, 2010 1:25 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Talk to Jack Fillinich and you’ll hear it. It’s Sunday morning and he’s sitting in front of the single-story house in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, that he’s lived in his whole life. He’s 69. He’s wearing slippers, jeans and no shirt, repairing a […]
Reporting by Paul Eckert; editing by Eric BeechWASHINGTONMon May 24, 2010 7:22pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government has declared a “fishery disaster” in the seafood-producing states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama due to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, making them eligible for federal funds, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said […]
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 […]
