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Monday, July 12, 2010 at 10:21AM GULF OF MEXICO - Weathered oil enters Coast Guard Cutter Walnut's skimmer off the Gulf Coast.
Walnut's crew left Hawaii in May and traveled over 6000 miles to assist with cleanup efforts. U.S. Coast Guard photo.
Gulf Of Mexico, Horizon, Oil Spill in Guest, Pollution Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 8:24AM Dr. Sharon K. Taylor, a veterinarian with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dan Alonso, the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge manager, and others release a crate of Brown Pelicans into the wild, June 27, 2010.
This is the largest of 10 bird releases to date, totaling 72 birds. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Robert Brazzel
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 3:54PM GULF OF MEXICO - Vessels of Opportunity participants chase and corral oil near Dauphin Island, Ala.
More than 38,000 people are participating in the nation's largest oil spill response in history. U.S. Coast Guard photo.
Gulf Of Mexico, Horizon, Oil Spill in Guest, Pollution Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 8:15PM 
A brown pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, on the beach at Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. Source; The Daily Telegraph.
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 12:00PM 
Oil remains on the northwest beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana.
May 26, 2010
Gulf Of Mexico, Louisiana, Oil Spill in Guest, Pollution Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 1:57PM Photographer Carolyn Cole, with The Los Angeles Times takes pictures of oil from the Deepwater Horizon on the breakwater in the mouth of the Mississippi River where it meets the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, Tuesday, May, 18, 2010.
The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead.
Photo by Sean Gardner/Greenpeace
BP, Greenpeace, Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Spill in Guest, Nature, Pollution Monday, May 17, 2010 at 12:00PM Fort Jackson, Louisiana (USA). May 15th, 2010. Veterinarian Erica Miller, left, with the help of two other workers at the International Bird Rescue Research Center facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana clean a Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on May 15, 2010.
The bird was covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, the BP leased oil platform that exploded on April 20 and sank after burning. Photo by © Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
BP, Greenpeace, Gulf Of Mexico, Horizon, Oil Spill in Guest, Nature, Pollution Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 9:26AM A wall of hay bails has been placed along the Gulf on the eastern tip of the island to form an absorptive barrier for the approaching oil/tar-ball front.
Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Spill in Guest, Pollution Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 1:14PM The first oiled bird brought in for treatment at the Gulf Oil Spill, is now recuperating in stable condition.
The Gannet spends its time in the pool improving its water-proofing at the Fort Jackson, Louisiana wildlife rescue center.
Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Spill in Guest, Nature, Pollution Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:57PM GULF OF MEXICO - (May 7, 2010) Machinery Technician 2nd Class Andrew Johnson, from Atlantic Strike Team National Strike Force, visually examines seawater with possible oil contaminant aboard CGC Harry Claiborne (WLM 561).
Harry Claiborne is currently equipped with a Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System (VOSS), which assists in the removal oil from the ocean surface. The U.S. Coast Guard is working in partnership with BP PLC, local residents, and other federal agencies to aid in preventing the spread of oil following the April 20 explosion on mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class (AW/SW) Jonathen E. Davis)
Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Spill in Guest, Nature, Pollution Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 6:34PM Oil sits on top of the water in the Gulf Of Mexico near Brenton Island, Louisiana May 5, 2010. Efforts continue to clean up oil spilled from the Deepwater Horizon oil platform.
The BP leased oil platform exploded and sank on April 20, 2010 leaking an estimated 5,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico threatening wildlife and the seafood industry in the Gulf.
Photo by Mark Floegel
Gulf Of Mexico, Oil Spill in Guest, Nature, Pollution Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 10:16PM
This pictiure if the Horizone deepwater explosion was found on Flickr. It just shows the magnitued of what the problem was at the time and NOW!
Gulf Of Mexico, Horizon, Oil Rig in Guest, Pollution Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 9:19PM 
Workmen lay a white oil absorbant boom in front of bright orange booms on the Louisiana Coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River May 4, 2010.
The workers were in a race to protect the coast from the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform disaster that has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The BP leased oil platform exploded and sank on April 20, 2010 leaking an estimated 5,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico threatening wildlife and the seafood industry in the Gulf.
Gulf Of Mexico, Horizon, Louisiana, Mississippi River in Nature, Pollution Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 1:07PM 
An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day were leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in late April, following an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The rig eventually capsized and sank.
These images of the affected area were captured on April 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite (top, wider view) and the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)satellite (bottom, close up).
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