Photo: Louisiana oil slick seen from space
The NASA sattelite image above terrifyingly shows both how big the Gulf of Mexico oil slick is — compare it to the size of New Orleans — and how close it’s getting to the Louisiana coast. For more on the ongoing cleanup effort, see this week’s FP explainer.
The NASA sattelite image above terrifyingly shows both how big the Gulf of Mexico oil slick is -- compare it to the size of New Orleans -- and how close it's getting to the Louisiana coast.
The NASA sattelite image above terrifyingly shows both how big the Gulf of Mexico oil slick is — compare it to the size of New Orleans — and how close it’s getting to the Louisiana coast.
For more on the ongoing cleanup effort, see this week’s FP explainer.
Joshua Keating is a former associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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