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No end in sight to Gulf oil spill
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2913710.htm
The White House is calling it the worst environmental disaster in US history but still engineers from BP can’t stop the oil from the company’s broken well from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Company officials say their next plan to stem the flow could take a week to implement but local residents are clamouring for faster action.
Oil spill crisis
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/environment/oil-spill-crisis/20100503-u388.html
Oil streaming from a well below a rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion is causing an environmental disaster.
Just How Big Is that Oil Spill?
http://www.good.is/post/just-how-big-is-that-oil-spill/
Here’s an awesome, if startling, new perspective of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Because it’s over the open Gulf, it’s really tough to get a sense of how big the spill actually is. Google Earth engineer Paul Rademacher built this utility (posted first by the Atlantic’s James Fallows) with which one can overlay an image of the oil spill on top of a map of your choosing.
Deepwater Horizon – A Graphical View of the Numbers
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/05/deepwater-horizon-a-graphical-view-of-the-numbers.php
The scale of the numbers being reported from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are starting to lose their meaning for me. Luckily, David McCandless over at ‘Information is Beautiful’ is putting his analytical mind to the data and spitting out a graph to put some of these numbers into perspective.
Crazy Gulf: high-risk ‘junk shot’ may be tried to plug oil leak
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/crazy-gulf-highrisk–junk-shot-may-be-tried-to-plug-oil-leak-20100511-uqg1.html
The pressure on BP to plug the leak from a fractured pipe on the seabed is mounting as an estimated 5000 barrels of crude spew into the sea each day, feeding fears of an environmental catastrophe.