A Sea in Flames - Carl Safina [166]
2 “A bottom kill finishes this well,” and “a hard sell” T. Breen, “Decision Expected on Plug for BP’s Broken Oil Well,” Associated Press, August 13, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11390638.
3 No oil-caused dead zones developed J. Raloff, “No ‘Dead Zone’ from BP Oil,” Science News, September 7, 2010; http://www.sciencenews.org/view/
generic/id/63103/title/No_dead_zone_from_BP_oil.
4 Sargassum recovering M. Hirsch, “Fewer Turtles Being Found Soaked in Oil, Researchers Say,” Times-Picayune, August 11, 2010; http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/fewer_turtles_being_found_soak.html. See also L. Kaufman and Shaila Dewan, “Luck and Ecology Seem to Soften Impact of Gulf Oil Spill,” International Herald Tribune, September 14, 2010; http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-184098210.html.
5 “The Gulf is incredible” “Nearly 80 Percent of Gulf Spill Oil Still in Water: Experts,” Agence France-Presse, August 18, 2010; http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nearly-80-percent-of-gulf-spill-oil-still-in-water-experts-2055910.html.
6 Oil and dispersant droplets in the larval crabs M. Thomas, “Oil-in-Seafood Reports; Do They Hold Water?” Orlando Sentinel, August 12, 2010.
7 “The spill isn’t as bad,” and “The perception is” C. Robertson, “In Gulf, Good News Is Taken with Grain of Salt,” New York Times, August 4, 2010; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/us/05gulf.html.
8 Green shoots appearing, and Associated Press calculates 3.4 square miles C. Burdeau and Jeffrey Collins, “Signs of Regrowth Seen in Oiled Louisiana Marshland,” Associated Press, August 12, 2010; http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/12/
signs_of_regrowth_seen_in_oiled_louisiana_marshland/.
9 “We were anchored” B. Marshall, “Don’t Kid Yourself, Oil Isn’t Gone,” Times-Picayune, August 8, 2010; http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-47/1281336612181230.xml&coll=1.
10 Very roughly 1,800 square miles K. Wells, “Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecological Disaster,” BloombergBusinessweek, August 18, 2010; http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-18/collapsing-marsh-dwarfs-bp-oil-blowout-as-ecological-disaster.html. See also S. Borenstein and Cain Burdeau, “Scientists Think Gulf Can Recover,” Associated Press, August 6, 2010; http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11337200.
11 Marsh losses J. W. Day Jr. et al., “Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,” Science 315, no. 5819, March 23, 2007: 1679–84. See also L. D. Britsch and Joseph B. Dunbar, “Land Loss Rates: Louisiana Coastal Plain,” Journal of Coastal Research 9, no. 2, Spring 1993: 324–38; http://www.jstor.org/stable/4298092.
12 Felicia Coleman quoted C. Robertson, “Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been Dumping Site,” New York Times, July 30, 2010; http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E4D8133AF933A05754C0A9669D8B63.
13 Mississippi marsh loss C. Burdeau and Jeffrey Collins, “Signs of Regrowth Seen in Oiled Louisiana Marshland,” Associated Press, August 12, 2010; http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/12/
signs_of_regrowth_seen_in_oiled_louisiana_marshland/.
14 Navy secretary Ray Mabus H. R. Weber and Dina Cappiello, “Obama Endorses Using Fines for Gulf Rehabilitation,” Associated Press, September 29, 2010; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_bi_ge/
us_gulf_oil_spill_restoration.
15 Louisiana shrimpers go back to work D. A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin, “Unallayed by Tests, Fishermen Greet Start of Gulf Shrimp Harvest with Suspicion,” Washington Post, August 17, 2010; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/16/AR2010081605471.html.
16 BP’s money for mental health “Plumes of Gulf Oil Spreading East on Sea Floor,” AC360 blog, August 17, 2010; http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/17/plumes-of-gulf-oil-spreading-east-on-sea-floor.
17 Margaret Carruth, a Louisiana husband and wife, and “throwing desks, kicking chairs” J. Reeves, “Oil Gusher Is Dead, but