"The oil pollution 'could endanger Florida’s shoreline mangroves, seagrass beds and the third-longest barrier reef in the world, the 221-mile-long Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.'"
-- Jeff Hoffmeyer, Univ. of Southern Mississippi Center
for Fisheries Research and Development
(quoted by
Think Progress.org)
The composite image below comes via
ThinkProgress.org. Brad Johnson laid a
MODIS satellite image of BP's massive oil spill over a National Weather Service
HYCOM model of Gulf water currents. For a detailed view,
click the image or these words.
