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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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10/18: For sale
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster. Click for more.
10/17: Do not enter
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 15 shot at Perdido Beach, Ala. Click for more.
10/16: Surfing in
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 15 shot at Perdido Beach, Ala., of oil surfing into the shore. Click for more.
10/15: Remembering oil rally
Photographer Kris Krug and the folks at the TedX Oil Spill expedition took some outstanding photographs in the summer that chronicled life during the middle of the oil disaster, like this June 14 shot from Mississippi of a coming rally. Over the next few days, we’ll review some of their great work. Click to see more.
10/14: Dead marsh
Here’s another aerial view of some of the dead marsh on a berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click for more.
10/13: Louisiana berm
Here’s an aerial view of some of the berm along Louisiana’s coast. Click to see more.
10/12: Buoy work
Two Greenpeace workers on Oct. 5 placed the last of six recovered environmental acoustic recording systems in the hold of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise in the Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon spill site. Click to learn more.
10/11: Searching
GRAND ISLE, La.- Jessica Odell, a natural resource advisor during the Deepwater Horizon response, scans the beach for the Piping Plover, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/10: Sand removal
GRAND ISLE, La. — Clean up crews with the Deepwater Horizon response remove oiled sand from a beach on Grand Terre 1, Oct. 10, 2010. Click for more.
10/9: Gulfport cleanup
Contract workers cleaned oil on Oct. 8 from the BP Deepwater Horizon off rocks at the Port of Gulfport in Gulfport, Miss. Click for more.
10/8: Decontamination
Contractors with the Deepwater Horizon response cleaned oil from a vessel at the decontamination facility in Lafitte, La., on Oct. 6, 2010. Click for more.
10/7: Seafood safety
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke visited the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service Mississippi Laboratory in Pascagoula, Miss., on Oct. 5. Click to learn more.
10/6: Future of the Gulf
Panelists on the Oxford American magazine’s “Future of the Gulf Coast” discussion on Oct. 5 concluded, among other things, that Southern leaders needed to be bold, innovative and concentrate on diversifying the region’s economy for the Gulf to prosper responsibly in the future. Click to learn more.
10/5: Quiet beauty
Photographer Terri Garland says this image of empty crab crates on a dock at Point la Hache, La., captured her eye this summer because of its quiet beauty — especially in the midst of all of the mess going on with the Gulf oil disaster. Click for more.
10/4: Questions
Photographer Terri Garland captured this woman asking pointed questions of Kenneth Feinberg, government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund, during a July 15 meeting at Port Sulphur Catholic Church in Louisiana. Click to learn more.l
10/3: Capt. Collins
Photographer Terri Garland captured this image in the summer of veteran Louisiana oysterman Wilbert Collins on a dock in Golden Meadows. Click for more.
10/2: Tattoo artist
Tattoo artist Bobby Pitre of Larose, La., is portrayed by photographer Terri Garland as he paints a satiric portrait of now-deposed BP CEO Tony Hayward. Click to learn more.
10/1: Old Bay talk on Gulf
Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, left, spoke this week at the National Aquarium in Baltimore about the Gulf oil disaster and how a similar spill could affect Chesapeake Bay.
9/30: Welcome home!
Here’s another shot by photographer Amy O’Neill Houck from Sept. 21 in Cordova, Alaska, as family members waited for the Coast Guard cutter Sycamore. Click for more.
9/29: Gulf Coast rising
On Oct. 30, the good folks at the nonprofit Radical Joy for Hard Times are sponsoring “Gulf Coast Rising,” a day for people along the Gulf coast to gather to celebrate the region, but also talk about how the recent oil spill has affected their lives. Click to learn more.
9/28: Restoration report
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today is releasing the Obama Administration’s report on long-term restoration for the Gulf states following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April. Click to learn more.
9/27: Baby-makin’ time
Alaska photographer Amy O’Neill Houck snapped this humorous photograph Sept. 21 in Cordova, Alaska, as family members waited for the Coast Guard cutter Sycamore, which was returning from duty in the Gulf of Mexico following the oil spill. Click to learn more.
9/26: I want my life back
Here’s a photo and testimonial of New Orleans chef Chris DeBarr by photographer Terri Garland. Click to learn more about Garland’s series.
9/25: Another look
GRAND ISLE, La. — Here’s another look at the updated look of the yard full of crosses marked with wildlife that died and activities that suffered after the Gulf oil tragedy. Click to see more.