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- 6/25: Biden, Mabus to visit Gulf coast
- 6/23: More oil gushing
- 6/22: Gulf rig owner criticizes President Obama's drilling halt
- 6/20: BP exec's yachting trip infuriates
- 6/19: Questions on who is in charge
- 6/18: BP's Hayward off spill duty, more
- 6/16: BP to create $20b escrow fund
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11/16: Abandoned
Abandoned boom along Bay Jimmy in Louisiana highlights this photo shot by the Gulf Restoration Network. Click for more.
11/11: Jammin’
———– Gulf Restoration Network was the nonprofit partner of Voodoo Weekend earlier this month where Big Sam, Tab and Cyril with VOW performed in New Orleans’ City Park. Click for more.
11/10: Hands
Here’s a photo of a study of a fisherman’s hands that California photographer Bobby Moon took during his eight-day trip across the Gulf coast in October. Click for more.
11/9, Day 8: Aftermath
California photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered final insights of their eight-day tour of the Gulf coast, which ended around Gulfport, Mississippi. Click for more.
11/8: Day 7: Out of oysters
California photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered these insights on Day Seven of their Eight Days in the Gulf, which was spent in and around Venice and Port Sulphur, La. Click for more.
11/7, Day 6: Company town
Calif. photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered these insights on Day Six, Oct. 23 of the Eight Days in the Gulf tour around Venice, La., a major fishing village where they got differing stories about the oil disaster. Click for more.
11/6, Day 5: Praying
California photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered insights about New Orleans about Day Five, Oct. 22, of their Eight Days in the Gulf. Click for more.
11/5, Day 4: Free Parking
Calif. photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell offered these insights on their Eight Days in the Gulf spent around Dauphin Island/Gulf Shores, Ala. Click for more.
11/4, Day 3: Crabbing
Take a look at Day Three of Eight Days in the Gulf by photographer Bobby Moon and writer Frank Brightwell. Today: the La. and Miss. coasts. Click for more.
11/3, Day Two: Ronnie
Photographer Bobby Moon of California spent Eight Days in the Gulf last month to highlight what was happening in the region six months after the Gulf oil disaster. Click to learn more about Day Two.
11/2: Day One in the Gulf
For the next eight days, we’ll showcase a photo by California photographer Bobby Moon, who spent Eight Days in the Gulf last month to highlight what was happening in the region six months after the Gulf oil disaster. Click to learn more.
10/31: Algal bloom
Federal officials say what may look like oil recently in the Gulf of Mexico near West Bay, La., actually turned out to be an algal bloom that had no hydrocarbons in it. Click for more.
10/30: Oiled grass
If you want to know how nasty the Gulf oil disaster was to the Louisiana marsh, just look at this close-up shot taken by photographer Drew Wheelan on Sept. 5, 2010. It shows non-degrated oiled marsh gras from Bay Jimmy, Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
10/29: Tar detour
Photographer Drew Wheelan highlights the detour that a snowy plover had to take around tarballs on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama. Click for more.
10/28: Surrounded
Photographer Drew Wheelan captured this image in September of a snowy plover surrounded by tarballs on the beach at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama. Click to learn more…
10/27: Documentary
PBS’s Frontline and ProPublica collaborated on an investigation into the BP oil disaster that resulted in an hour-long Oct. 26 documentary that looked into “the trail of problems — deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations — which long troubled the oil giant, BP.” Click to learn more.
10/26: Happy to be home
Chief Petty Officer David Mooney, an engineer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Fir, greets his family Oct. 22 at Coast Guard Base Tongue Point. Click to learn more.
10/25: Dead dolphin
Photographer Drew Wheelan snapped the image of this dead dolphin on Raccoon Island in Louisiana on Sept. 5. The animal originally was found and reported on Sept. 28, he noted, and not sampled to test for oil spill contamination.
10/24: Release
Billy Maher, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist, released a sea turtle Oct. 21, 2010, some 50 miles south of Grand Isle, La.
10/23: Kreepin’
Photographer Jason Griffith found this scene outside the Southern Sting tattoo parlor in Larose, La., on July 29, 2010.
10/22: Decontamination
Louisiana photographer Jason Griffith snapped this image in August of a “jack-up” boat being used to decontaminate oiled boats northeast of Barataria Bay, La.
10/21: Coral sample
A scientist holds a Brittle Star collected by a submarine investigating the environmental effects of the Gulf oil disaster. Click to learn more.
10/20: Dead grass
Photographer and water scientist Jason Griffith of Baton Rouge, La., snapped this image of dead marsh grass Oct. 14 on the south side of the S.W. Pass near Burwood, La. Click for more.
10/19: Sheen
Photographer Kris Krug of the TedX Oilspill Expedition captured an image of this boat as it waded in June through the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Click to see more.