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
Mississippi
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.
11/3, 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.
10/18: 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.
10/15: 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.
10/9: 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.
10/7: 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.
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.
8/30: Reminders
Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through Louisiana and Mississippi. Six months after the storm, Center for a Better South President Andy Brack snapped this photo in Pass Christian, Miss., to highlight how storm damage continued to impact the Gulf.
8/14: Hope for shrimp?
Photographer Miles Wolf Tamboli snapped these juvenile shrimp Aug. 9 on the Mississippi coast. Click to read more.
8/3: Clean-up
Beach clean-up crews take a rest July 31 during oil recovery operations on Ship Island, Miss. Note the oil tarballs in the foreground. Click photo or headline for more.
7/24: Bird on a boom
Photographer Miles Wolf Tamboli (TalkRadioNews) snapped a gull bobbing on top of oil boom July 22 outside Biloxi, Miss.
1/3 of Gulf fisheries closed
Almost one-third of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico are closed to recreational and commercial fishing because of the April oil spill, the Associated Press reported June 1.
Ravages of Katrina
This is a photo of a tree in the Gulf at Pass Christian, MS, a few months after Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Andy Brack.