Gulf air turns toxic after oil spill relief effort - Poison Spreads

As Hurricane Alex is sweeping towards the American coastline, it has already disrupted the oil spill containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico ...and drawn the crude to environmentally sensitive regions. Meanwhile further inland, people are starting to complain about strange symptoms and illnesses that could be related to the clean-up work.

Oil spill could destroy communities, generations

What can go wrong will go wrong. Such is the case for the Gulf Coast and the unending saga of the BP oil spill that's now in its eleventh week. What's wrong now is this: winds from Hurricane Alex are pushing tar balls as large as apples onto Gulf Coast beaches. This has stopped cleanup efforts momentarily and even undone some of the spill control. As one marine scientist put it: "We lost all the progress we made." But the winds picking up are a giant concern for something else.

World Largest Oil Skimmer Arrives in the Gulf of Mexico

A Taiwanese-owned ship billed as the world's largest skimming vessel is preparing to sail to the scene of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. (June 30)