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... )

Times-Picayune: Oil spill plugged, but more oiled birds than ever are being found"Before BP plugged the well with a temporary cap on July 15, an average of 37 oiled birds were being collected dead or alive each day. Since then, the figure has nearly doubled to 71 per day, according to a Times-Picayune review of daily wildlife rescue reports ( Read more... )

Deepwater Horizon Response:26 July Press Briefing
According to Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, "we're going to have tar balls and other kind of impacts are going to go on for a long, long time."

Picayune:Tuesday's list of oiled locations in Louisiana

Example details: St. Bernard Parish fighting tar balls, patch of oil near Chandeleur ( Read more... )

Good news; former TS Bonnie is fizzling out as a minor depression. Picayune

Meanwhile:

Palm Beach Post: Deep sea plume in Gulf 'changes concept' of an oil spill"micro-droplets of oil, too small for the human eye, have streamed out from the spill site in plumes, adding a third dimension beyond the smelly slick and glumpy tarballs spreading across ( Read more... )

Lubbock Online:Tech scientists hold nothing back in battling effects of Gulf spillExcerpts ( Read more... )

WDSU:'People Are Getting Sick,' Cleanup Worker Says, Had No Protective Gear"The work to cleanup the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf can be hazardous, and one spill worker told WDSU that he has witnessed illness, injury and unsafe working conditions. Jarred Bourgeois is the engineer on a crew ship that carries personnel and supplies to ( 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... )

Latest round up of news links in the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster.

Huffington Post:BP Oil Spill: 7 Secrets BP Doesn't Want You To Know (PHOTOS)

BP buys up Gulf scientists for legal defense, roiling academic community

Pro Publica: BP Texas Refinery Had Huge Toxic Release Just Before Gulf Blowout

S.F. Chronical:Did BP lobby Libya over Lockerbie ( 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... )