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"Herring take four years to become adults. And like clockwork, the herring population of Prince William Sound collapsed four years after the spill. Those that came back were covered in lesions, ravaged by disease." ... Read more >>

Fish organs are NOT the same color as they used to be, says BP/P2S worker -- "You cut them open and they're not the same" (VIDEO)

October 29th, 2010 at 04:22 PM

BP/P2S Worker Demands Answers from Claims Tsar Kenneth Feinberg, October 28, 2010:

Via JerryCope1

Former BP/P2S ... Read more >>

ALL KINDS of sea birds PARALYZED and DEAD near SARASOTA, FL — Doctors raise DISPERSANT… Close by where 173 ppm oil found in sand (VIDEO)

September 24th, 2010 at 02:22 PM

Dead swans waking up Southwest Florida news rooms? Now asking asking "could it mean the ... Read more >>

DISTURBING: Nest of baby turtle eggs surrounded with tarballs — “We dug in the sand a few feet and found layers of black sand” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

September 13th, 2010 at 08:37 AM

Tarballs on Horn Island, Greenpeace Blogpost by Phil Kline, September 8, 2010:

Excerpts

Horn Island, off the ... Read more >>

Top marine scientist: Generations of filter-feeders could be lost — “Basically every species” in Gulf spends time as filter-feeder, including newborn BLUEFIN TUNA

August 28th, 2010 at 10:33 PM

Experts: Submerged oil threatens organisms, Press-Register, August 28, 2010:

Robert Shipp, chairman of the University of ... Read more >>

MORE: 300 birds dead within few hundred feet, “Some were RECENT” — Mother gull dies while keeping baby egg warm (PHOTO)

August 27th, 2010 at 10:17 AM

Dead Birds Found on Modoto Island off Louisiana coast, CNN iReport, August 26, 2010:

On the ... Read more >>

Cousteau, other experts “stunned” by island “littered” with “many dead birds” — It’s “clear” birds poisoned by BP disaster (VIDEO)

August 26th, 2010 at 10:57 PM

Dead Bird Island, Paul Orr, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper , August 23, 2010:

On Thursday, August 19, ... Read more >>

Researchers reveal 80 PERCENT of crab larvae samples from Florida to Louisiana have “oily orange droplets” — NOAA says “HAVE NOT FOUND” IT

August 25th, 2010 at 01:21 PM

The Christian Science Monitor followed up on "marine biologist Erin Grey, a post-doctoral researcher ... Read more >>

Robots find BLACK WORMHOLES south of Gulf Shores, Ala. — Usually WHITE; Scientists want to know if oil-related

August 24th, 2010 at 11:40 PM

Scientists studying BP's Gulf oil disaster are "intrigued" by the discovery of unusual colored "wormholes", ... Read more >>

Toxicologist studying whales in Gulf MOST worried about DNA damage: “They’re mammals, we’re mammals — they represent us”

August 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 PM

Study of oil spill's effect on whales could show future of Gulf marine life, Press-Register, ... Read more >>

“Stingrays and flounder trying to escape the water” — “Crabs crawling out of the water in the MIDDLE of the DAY”

August 22nd, 2010 at 04:38 PM

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants, Inter Press Service, August 20, 2010:

Danny Ross, ... Read more >>

More on USF report: Newborn fish “ingesting pure oil”; Organisms showed a “strong toxic response” scientists say

August 17th, 2010 at 09:40 AM

CNN has another article on the report by University of South Florida researchers, "Initial findings ... Read more >>

Deep sea creatures “congregating on the surface”; “Like ALL of the sea life is trying to get out of the water”

August 14th, 2010 at 03:41 PM

According to Reuters, fishermen in the Gulf report "seeing strange behavior by marine life -- ... Read more >>

“Limited harvest in 2012, because the babies are getting hit with these toxics” says Marine Scienes Director

August 13th, 2010 at 09:32 PM

Excerpt from One Expert Admits Overreaction to Gulf Oil Spill, Alabama Dept. of Conservation (a ... Read more >>

Feds CONFISCATE independent LSU scientists’ samples because project not approved by BP, others

August 11th, 2010 at 10:17 PM

Linda Hooper-Bui, Louisiana State University Department of Entomology Associate Professor, writes in The Scientist, "My ... Read more >>

BREAKING Tulane researchers indicate COREXIT now in blue crab larvae from Florida to Texas; Bio-accumulation fears (VIDEO)

July 31st, 2010 at 04:05 AM

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

A report today from Fox 8 in New Orleans reveals that ... Read more >>

“Mass eradication” of sea turtle food source; “There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface” says oceanographer

July 29th, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Chemical oceanographer John Kessler from Texas A&M University returned from sampling the waters around the ... Read more >>

Gulf Scientist: Oil is “causing ulcers” in sealife, then destroying “livers” and “immune and nervous systems”

July 21st, 2010 at 02:13 PM

Tech scientists hold nothing back in battling effects of Gulf spill, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Texas), July ... Read more >>

Florida Oil Spill Law

Study: Death toll from Deepwater Horizon disaster may be 50 times higher than believed -- "A grave underestimation"

Giant jellyfish, other creatures wash ashore in Ocean Springs (PHOTOS)

“Oil and chemical residue still coat the beach” in Ocean Springs, Mississippi – Dead pelicans, fish, turtles, and jelly fish (PHOTOS)

Two dead baby dolphins found with “what looked like oil on their faces” — “We really can’t speculate” on what caused their death

“Corpse strewn beaches” on Grand Isle (PHOTOS)

TV: “Dolphin found covered in oil from BP spill recovering in Florida Keys” — Can never be released from captivity

“Flocks of white pelicans, some still coated in oil” (VIDEO)

“Very concerned”: “Unusually high number of manatee deaths this year” says Florida agency

Scientists find “lots of oil and dead animals on the sea floor at a spot very close to where the government said it barely found any oil”

All 40 scientists agree at meeting: "Fish in the Gulf of Mexico will continue to get sick, die or fail to reproduce as a result" of oil -- What about the people?

After Valdez, fish came back in full force — Then “like clockwork” the herring population collapsed