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Gulf Oil Crisis
Use this timeline of the Gulf Oil Crisis to explore video for the day to day events that occurred over that time period.
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/zoom/bpspill_contextline.swf
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Florida Releases August 9, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Situation Update
This update deals specifically with Florida and includes the current state of the beaches, recoverable oil and upcoming weather that may impact the cleanup process.
http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/florida-releases-august-8-2010-gulf-oil-spill-situation-update
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CNN: In the Gulf, scientific questions still lurk beneath the surface
This August 9, 2010 update on the oil pollution situation in the Gulf of Mexico looks at the difficult task of understanding the oil spill's long-term impact.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/09/gulf.environment.damage/index.html?hpt=C2
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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' on the Oil Spill
In this video from Fox News,'The Science Guy' Bill Nye breaks down the challenges to capping and stopping the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4291180/bill-nye-the-science-guy-on-the-oil-spill
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Oil in the Gulf: Two Months Later
The Big Picture has done a follow up photostory about the extent of the oil spill two months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform sank in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html
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CBC: Photo Gallery Gulf Oil Spill
This photo gallery represents a sampling of the impact studies on the environment from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
http://www.cbc.ca/photogallery/news/3339/
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Visualizing the BP Oil Spill Disaster
To get a perspective on how large the BP oil spill has become, you can use this mashup that superimposes a map of the oil spill on your location using Google Maps. This program lets you measure it against the land mass surrounding your home town. Click on the link, then enter your town, and province...
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
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Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico
"Despite apparent efforts to restrict journalists from accessing affected areas, stories, video and photographs continue to emerge. Collected here are recent photographs of oil-affected wildlife, people and shorelines around the Gulf of Mexico on this, the 51st day after the initial explosion." [sit...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/scenes_from_the_gulf_of_mexico.html
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The Big Picture: Caught in the Oil
Another photo essay from The Big Picture dramatically shows the fate of brown pelicans and other sea birds that have been exposed to the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html
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Efforts to Suppress the Flow of Oil
"Since a fire engulfed the Deepwater horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, engineers have attempted a number of techniques to slow or stop the torrent of oil leaking from the wellhead 5,000 feet below the surface." [site] This article contains diagrams of the unsuccessful attempts to stem the...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-topkill-diagram.html
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Tracking the Oil Spill in the Gulf
The New York Times has created an interactive map detailing the release of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster from April 23 until June 1. The map shows the amount of oil released and the extent of the area affected by the oil.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/01/us/20100501-oil-spill-tracker.html?ref=us
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Where Oil Has Washed Onto Beaches and Marshes
"Since the rig explosion on April 20, oil has been spewing from a deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico. For the first month, the oil stayed mostly in the gulf, but beginning in the last week of May, waves of oil have washed onto about 70 miles of Louisiana’s fragile wetlands and beaches." [site] This...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/27/us/20100527-oil-landfall.html
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Gulf Oil Effect
Oil leaking from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month has had a profound effect on the environment. Fox News looks at the environmental problem through video, maps, and still images.
http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/scitech/2010/05/27/gulf-oil-effect/
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A TimeLine of the BP Oil Spill
This slide show describes some of the political and environmental and economic events related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/05/22/oil-spill-timeline.html
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Top Kill Procedure
Animated footage of the "top kill" procedure which BP will perform later this week at the Deepwater Horizon site in an effort to stop the leak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YG7J-Ws6k
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The Big Picture: Oil Reaches the Louisiana Shores
"Over one month after the initial explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, crude oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico, and oil slicks have slowly reached as far as 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes. According to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, more than 65 miles of Louisiana's...
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
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Disaster Unfolds Slowly in the Gulf of Mexico
The Big Picture provides a powerful photo essay of the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. Photographs of the environmental damage being caused by oil provide insight to the magnitude of the oil spill.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/disaster_unfolds_slowly_in_the.html
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Deepwater Horizon: Spill Analysis
"The BP Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank after an explosion on April 20, 2010. The subsequent oil loss into the Gulf of Mexico is threatening the health of the Gulf and coastal ecosystems in the region. Using high resolution satellites from NOAA's partners in Earth observations, NESDIS scientists...
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=408&MediaTypeID=2
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Oil Rig Burning in the Gulf of Mexico
"An oil rig exploded today in the Gulf of Mexico. 11 people are missing and 7 are critically injured according to the US Coast Guard. This imagery is from the visible channel of GOES-13 showing the burning rig in the center of the movie and sediment discharge from the Mississippi River near New Orleans...
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=397&MediaTypeID=2
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CNBC: Crisis in the Gulf - the 2010 Oil Spill
The top stories as they are posted on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Also included on this page are four "oil" slideshows, providing background information/images.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/36913416
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