it's hard to write anything about this for me anyway.
i live next to a salt marsh and spend way too much of my time thinking about the marsh. it's astonishing the level of complexity in salt marshes and they're all delicate systems and terribly difficult to clean of oil i would expect. for some reason this daily proximity to such a system of systems makes tracking the deepwater horizon disaster really disheartening.
this blog seems pretty comprehensive and is updated quite regularly:
Gulf oil spill: latest updates | Environment | guardian.co.uk
note sarah palin's important contribution to this:
@SarahPalinUSA Having worked/lived thru Exxon oil spill,my family&I understand Gulf residents' fears.Our prayers r w/u.
uh huh.