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Oil Spills, and Nature Suffers
Heart-rending images from the Gulf of Mexico reveal the effect of BP's oil spill on Mother Nature's helpless creatures. It seems animals are the first casualties of the tragic accident.
- July 9: A baby Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, an endangered species, is seen resting his head on a towel as he awaits veterinary care, after being rescued from oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, at the Audubon Center For The Research of Endangered Species, in New Orleans, La.read moreAP Photo/Gerald HerbertShare
- July 9: A baby Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, an endangered species, is seen resting his head on a towel as he awaits veterinary care, after being rescued from oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, at the Audubon Center For The Research of Endangered Species, in New Orleans, La.read moreAP Photo/Gerald HerbertShare
- July 7: Greenpeace activists paint over a banner with the British Petroleum (BP) logo in a protest against the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at St. Stephen's square in Vienna on Wednesday. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama to study the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gives academics and environmentalists a prominent role in making recommendations about the future of offshore drilling in the United States.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- July 7: Greenpeace activists paint over a banner with the British Petroleum (BP) logo in a protest against the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at St. Stephen's square in Vienna on Wednesday. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama to study the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gives academics and environmentalists a prominent role in making recommendations about the future of offshore drilling in the United States.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- July 7: Greenpeace activists paint over a banner with the British Petroleum (BP) logo in a protest against the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at St. Stephen's square in Vienna on Wednesday. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama to study the causes of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill gives academics and environmentalists a prominent role in making recommendations about the future of offshore drilling in the United States.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- July 2: BP Mobile Incident Commander Keith Seilhan talks with oil cleanup workers in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Friday. Seilhan was informing the workers that they had BP's permission to speak to members of the media if they wished. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is expected to come ashore over the July 4th weekend.read moreAP PhotoShare
- July 1: The "A Whale" skimmer, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen anchored on the >Mississippi River in Boothville, LA. With a length of 3 1/2 football fields and towering 10 stories high, "A Whale" is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day through 12 vents on either side of its bow. The ship has arrived in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to assist with the cleanup of the BP oil spill, a government spokeswoman said Thursday.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- July 1: A view from the deck of 'A Whale' skimmer, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, anchored along the Mississippi River in Boothville, Louisiana. The massive ship converted into a "super skimmer" has arrived in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to assist with cleanup of the BP oil spill, a government spokeswoman said Thursday. The 1,100-foot (335 meter)-long ore and oil carrier, dubbed the "A Whale," is being provided by the owner, TMT Shipping of Taiwan, and can collect 500,000 barrels (21 million gallons) per day of contaminated water, said Chris Coulon, a spokeswoman for the joint incident command.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- July 1: Third officer Neeraj Chaturved looks at the engine room of 'A Whale' skimmer vessel, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, anchored along the Mississippi River in Boothville, Louisiana. The massive ship converted into a "super skimmer" has arrived in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico to assist with cleanup of the BP oil spill, a government spokeswoman said Thursday. The 1,100-foot (335 meter)-long ore and oil carrier, dubbed the "A Whale," is being provided by the owner, TMT Shipping of Taiwan, and can collect 500,000 barrels (21 million gallons) per day of contaminated water, said Chris Coulon, a spokeswoman for the joint incident command.read moreReuters PhotoShare
- June 28: Demonstrators carry oil and feathers to the entrance of the Tate Britain gallery, in London, which is hosting the Tate Britain summer party, as part of a protest against BP sponsorship of the arts on Monday. BP's mounting costs for capping and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $2.65 billion, it said Monday, but the oil giant denied reports out of Russia that CEO Tony Hayward is resigning.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 28: Demonstrators pour oil and feathers outside the entrance of the Tate Britain gallery, in London, which is hosting the Tate Britain summer party, as part of a protest against BP sponsorship of the arts on Monday. BP's mounting costs for capping and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $2.65 billion, it said Monday, but the oil giant denied reports out of Russia that CEO Tony Hayward is resigning.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 23: This image from video provided by BP PLC early Wednesday, shows oil continuing to gush from the broken wellhead, at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said Wednesday that BP has been forced to remove a cap that was containing some of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 17: A Greenpeace activist participates in a protest by holding an image of an oil stained bird while standing in the Petroleum Fountain in Mexico City on Thursday. The protest was held to demand that the Mexican government's energy policy invest in cleaner alternatives and move away from petroleum in order to avoid future environmental disasters.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 17: A Greenpeace activist participates in a protest by standing next to a barrel with the British Petroleum logo and an image of an oil stained bird while standing in the Petroleum Fountain in Mexico City on Thursday. The protest was held to demand that the Mexican government's energy policy invest in cleaner alternatives and move away from petroleum in order to avoid future environmental disasters.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 17: Greenpeace activists protest while standing in the Petroleum Fountain in Mexico City on Thursday. The protest was held to demand that the Mexican government's energy policy invest in cleaner alternatives and move away from petroleum in order to avoid future environmental disasters.read moreAP PhotoShare
- June 17: Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., holds an Associated Press photo taken by Charlie Riedel, of an oil covered pelican, the state bird of Louisiana, as he questions BP CEO Tony Hayward, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, during the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill.read moreAP PhotoShare
- In this May 22. 2010 photo, 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 roseate spoonbills in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now impacting large stretches of the Louisiana Coast.read moreAPShare
- A young heron sits dying amidst oil splattering underneath mangrove on an island impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The is home to hundreds of herons, brown pelicans, terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills.read moreAPShare
- A Louisiana Fish and Wildlife officer unsuccessfully pursues an oil soaked pelican in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010 .The island, which is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills, is impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.read moreAPShare
- An oil soaked pelican takes flight after Louisiana Fish and Wildlife employees tried to corral him on an island in Barataria Bay just inside the the coast of Louisiana, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The island, which is home to hundreds of brown pelican nests as well at terns, gulls and roseate spoonbills, is impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.read moreAPShare
- A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Thursday, June 3, 2010. The Environmental Protection Agency has not yet fined BP for the Gulf oil spill _ details of possible penalties will be worked out later.read moreAPShare
- White pelicans, brown pelicans and seagulls are seen congregating on an island nesting ground in the Breton Sound of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Monday, May 3, 2010. Wildlife are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting from the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.read moreAPShare
- A dying catfish that has been picked at by birds floats on the surface of the water in the Breton Sound of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Monday, May 3, 2010. Fish and wildlife are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.read moreAPShare
- May 2: A dead sea turtle lies on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss. An unusually high number of sea turtles have been found dead on beaches over the past two days, but it is still unknown whether they died as a direct or indirect result of a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico caused by last week's oil-rig explosion.read moreAPShare
- May 2: Justin Main, a volunteer with the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss, inspects the body of a sea turtle found dead on the beach in Pass Christian, Miss. An unusually high number of sea turtles have been found dead on beaches in Mississippi over the past two days, but it is still unknown whether they died as a direct, or indirect result of a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of an oil rig last week.read moreAPShare
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Oil Spills, and Nature Suffers
Heart-rending images from the Gulf of Mexico reveal the effect of BP's oil spill on Mother Nature's helpless creatures. It seems animals are the first casualties of the tragic accident.
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