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After much public pressure, and an official request from Representative Edward Markey, BP has released a live video feed of the oil gushing from the ocean floor. You can find the feed in a lot of different locations, but as of this writing, most of them seem to be nonfunctional (presumably because of heavy traffic). […]

The oil slick from BP’s drilling disaster continues to expand and NOAA’s latest projections are now broken up into two maps. One for the main surface sheen and one for the tendril drifting towards the Loop Current and Florida. Skytruth is reporting that the slick is now approximately twice the size of New Jersey –

On the night of April 20, 2010, BP’s oil drilling disaster began with a tragic explosion that claimed 11 lives, and now it has become the largest environmental disaster in US history. Today marks one month since the beginning of BP’s disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that sent shockwaves across the world, and the

NOAA is confirming that part of the oil slick has entered the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico. The Loop Current transports warm Caribbean water between the Yucatan and Cuba northward into the Gulf of Mexico, and then loops to the southeast towards the Florida Keys (eventually meeting up with the Gulf Stream). It’s

Yesterday, on a trip to South Pass, Louisiana to survey the BP oil drilling disaster, CBS reporters were turned away by the Coast Guard under threat of arrest because of “BP’s rules.” Since this catastrophe first began almost a month ago, BP has attempted to restrict independent monitoring of the spill site and its impacts,

Roughtongue Bass, Image Courtesy of Islands in the Stream 2001, NOAA/OER.The “Islands in the Stream” are a series of underwater coral reefs, banks, and ridges that ring the Gulf of Mexico – forming an incredibly biodiverse and productive chain of habitat across the Gulf. In 2008, NOAA and others attempted to seize the unique opportunity

Since the BP oil drilling disaster began, residents and communities from across much of the Gulf coast have reported discovering tar balls washed up onshore. Some of the areas where they have been discovered include Dauphin Island, Alabama, Long Beach, Mississippi and, now the Florida Keys. BP’s drilling disaster is releasing massive quantities of oil

Where in the world is Will (YYN995)?Will is an adult male Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle. He washed ashore near Port Aransas, Texas on April 19, 2009. He was nursed back to health by Tony Amos and the good folks at the Animal Rehabilitation Keep (ARK), on the campus of the University of Texas Marine Science

NOAA’s latest trajectory map for the oil slick, click to enlarge:

This weekend, the New York Times reported that scientists studying the gigantic oil spill in the Gulf have discovered enormous oil plumes below the surface of the water. These findings backup claims from other independent experts that BP’s drilling disaster has been spewing far more oil in the Gulf than previously estimated by BP and