Links to more new articles on the continuing effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mother Jones: BP's Corexit Oil Tar Sponged Up by Human Skin Excerpts ( Read more... )

Say, remember that BP oil disaster in the Gulf in 2010? No, it hasn't all or mostly all been cleaned up.

Fortunately the air in New Orleans no longer "smells like 30 weight, like the floor of a transmission shop on a hot summer day." as it did for much of mid-2010. However in the Gulf, bayous, and marshlands, the effects continue. An ( Read more... )

Sunday I had an interesting day in Nine Mile Point, Louisiana.

( Hidden architectural treasure rediscovered; photos and more )

As you might have heard from the news, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened the Morganza Spillway to divert much of the high water on the Mississippi River into the Atchafalya Basin ( Read more... )

Times-Picayune: BP reneges on deal to rebuild oyster beds, repair wetlands, Louisiana officials say

Remember that oil spill that was in the national news a few months back? It's not just a memory on the Gulf Coast.

WDSU: Researchers: Thick Oil Coats Gulf Sea Floor"Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are finding oil from the busted BP well on the sea's muddy and mysterious bottom. Oil at ( Read more... )

WDSU: Some Oysters Tainted By Oil, Scientist Says

"Sampling by environmental groups has found oysters contaminated with oil along the Louisiana coast befouled by the BP PLC oil spill, a finding that casts doubt on statements by state and federal officials that all seafood tested here is safe to eat."

Southern Studies: Independent tests find oil ( Read more... )

Oil is apparently now leaking from both the new well cap and multiple places on the sea floor around it. There seems not to be consensus as to how serious this is.

Picayune:BP's Kent Wells: "We're in a good position to not have a catastrophic event"

Is that reassuring?

Picayune:Hearings: BP did not suspend drilling operations after report of ( Read more... )

Apparently oil and methane are now leaking from the ocean floor some distance away from the new well cap. The Sun Herald gives today's lesson on how to bury a lede:BP, feds clash over reopening capped Gulf oil well"BP and the Obama administration offered significantly differing views Sunday on whether the capped Gulf of Mexico oil well will have to ( Read more... )

Discovery News: Gulf's Artificial Islands Already Failing

Photos show sand berm island intended to be oil barriers eroding out rapidly, submerging a construction bulldozer. "the man who took these pictures wished to remain nameless, fearing retribution from the governor's [Bobby Jindal] office."

Remarkable account from Sports Illustrated (!): 7 ( Read more... )