On Barataria Bay
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. - While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. - In some versions of stories June 5 and 6 about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of a National Geographic photographer.
NEW ORLEANS - A device that's now sucking up significant amounts of the oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico offered a measure of optimism Sunday even as the government's point man on the spill warned problems would persist for months.
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. - A containment cap that sucked some of the oil from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico offered a small sign of progress for a region that has seen its wildlife coated in a lethal oil muck, its fishermen idled and its beaches tarnished by the nation's worst oil spill.
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. - The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.
