Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

Photo credit: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited a wildlife treatment center in Louisiana on Saturday. Jim Wilson, The New York Times.

Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given. [New York Times]

Bad news.

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