CAIN BURDEAU and HARRY R. WEBER The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS - The oil you can't see could be as bad as the oil you can. While people anxiously wait for the slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threaten virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish that are on dinner tables everywhere. "The threat to the deep-sea habitat is already a done deal , it is happening now," said Paul Montagna, a marine scientist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M...
Rescue boat captain: Platform crew jumped in water
Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
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Feds: BP's Gulf well to be killed after Labor Day
Newsvine
Newsvine
NEW ORLEANS — BP's image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company capped the well, though the oil giant's approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of...
AP poll: BP image recovering from spill, still low
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- BP's image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company sealed the well, though the oil giant's approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of...
BC-US--Gulf Oil Spill,2nd Ld-Writethru, US
MSNBC
MSNBC
WASHINGTON — BP's image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company sealed the well, though the oil giant's approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of...
Poll Finds BP Image Recovering, Still Low
WPXI
WPXI
WASHINGTON -- BP's image, which took an ugly beating after the Gulf oil spill, is recovering since the company capped the well, though the oil giant's approval level is still anything but robust. A majority of Americans...
Louisiana shrimp season opens amid spill concern
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Commercial fishermen can now trawl Louisiana's waters for white shrimp as the season opened on Monday, but questions linger about the effects BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico oil spill will...
Gulf oil spill to blame for oily blobs in vital Gulf sea life?
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor
New Orleans To find out how the food chain has been affected by the Gulf oil spill, marine scientists are closely monitoring this year’s spawn of blue crab – a key kind of plankton – in the Gulf of Mexico....



