The Times-Picayune is reporting both comforting and frightening news this morning:
The good:
BP said early Sunday afternoon that the mile-long tube working, drawing most of the leaking oil to the tanker from the Gulf seafloor.
The not-so-good:
Researchers have found more underwater plumes of oil than they can count from the blown-out well, said Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia. She said careful measurements taken of one plume showed it stretching for 10 miles, with a 3-mile width.
. . . and the downright depressing:
She said it could take years or even decades for the ecosystem to recover.
Ouch.
“BP says mile-long tube working to halt Gulf oil spill” (The Times-Picayune)
Photo: Tétine
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