July 21, 2010
The Natural Resources Defense Council Web site has a nifty interactive graphic that depicts the damage to the Gulf waters' ecology.
It appears that only a fraction of the millions of gallons of crude oil that have flooded into the Gulf of Mexico rises to the surface. A lot of the oil remains dissolved or dispersed in the Gulf’s waters, contaminating one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world. Although the gusher has been capped, the adverse effects of the spilled oil must now be dealt with.
