Recent news about the Gulf oil spill
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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
In the Gulf
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.
10/24: 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.
10/21: 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.
10/19: 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.
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.
9/19: How it was
REMEMBER HOW IT WAS? This satellite view, offered by DigitalGlobe on its Flickr stream, gives a view of the mess in the Gulf just three months ago. Click for more.
9/18: Testing
NOAA personnel and members of the media receive a briefing Sept. 14 on the Conductivity-Temperature-Depth equipment resting aboard the vessel American Diver from scientists aboard the NOAA ship Pisces via hand-held radio. Click for more.
9/10: Dive off rig
Researchers with Oceana.org made a Wednesday dive off a rig off the coast of Gulfport, Miss., and found it teeming with aquatic life. Click to read and see more.
9/6: The culprit?
Here’s an above-water look at the blowout preventer and cap that were removed Saturday from the Deepwater Horizon rig. Click to learn more.
9/3: Gulf rig fire
Above is a photo via Greenpeace that shows crews working to extinguish a fire that broke out on the Vermilion 380 oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. Click to learn more.
9/2: Explosion
The chilling news of another oil rig explosion off the Louisiana coast came this morning. Click for more.
9/1: Testing
Oceana.org researchers secure oil measuring straps around the Deepwater Horizon site while encountering rough seas earlier this week. Click to learn more about the group’s research.
8/31: Stormy seas
Darkness loomed over the Deepwater Horizon disaster site Aug. 30 in the Gulf of Mexico as stormy seas rocked researchers from Oceana who continued a two-month expedition. Click photo to learn more.
8/22: Sorting
Shrimp boat Capt. Mike Blanchard sorts his catch aboard his vessel, Capt. Roy, in the Robinson Canal near Chauvin, La., Aug. 19, 2010. Click for more.
8/12: Remember?
Just two months ago, Ted x Oilspill Expedition photographer Kris Krug (kk+) took this aerial shot in the Gulf of deep red oil floating on the surface. A lot has changed since then on the surface, but concerns remain about oil in the maritime habitat. Click for more info.
8/10: Pick-up
Miles Maduri, a deckhand aboard the 32-foot boat Bubble Chaser waits to pull boom into the boat, Aug. 6, 2010, near Mobile, Ala. Click to learn more.
8/9: Foamy scum
This aerial photo from late last week shows foamy scum that American Birding Association photographer Drew Wheelan says stretches for miles off the eastern tip of Raccoon Island in Terrebonne Bay off the Louisiana coast. Click for more.
7/29: Flyover
Freelance journalist and photographer Frank McMains of Baton Rouge, La., went on a Coast Guard flyover after Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled. Some surface oil remains, as reported on his blog, Lemons and Beans. Click photo or headline for more.
7/25: View from space
This view from space, taken July 21, indicates little visible oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, but highlights the breadth of the spill.
7/22: Flyover
This photograph, taken last week by S.C. Sen. Phil Leventis of Sumter near the Deepwater Horizon spill site, shows a flurry of activity. If you look closely, you can see a brownish oil on the surface that ships cut through as they navigate in the Gulf. Click photo or headline for more.
7/18: Skimming
Crew members on the US Coast Guard Cutter Walnut readies for skimming operations July 15 in the Gulf of Mexico. Click the photo or headline for more.
7/17: Oiled marsh
The Sierra Club offered this photo taken along the Gulf coast on July 16. Click picture or headline for more.
7/14: At the surface
Although California photographer Pinar Ozger shot this image late last month, it shows the floating dangers that still permeate the Gulf following the April spill. Click headline or photo to learn more.
7/12: Burning
A sound engineer from an ABC News crew led by national correspondent Jeffrey Kofman sets up a shot on the forecastle of Coast Guard Cutter Resolute near the “floating city” at the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.