History repeats itself. Boy does it. This was never more evident than after I finished reading Charles Wohlforth’s The Fate of Nature (2010), which has a few ominous chapters dedicated to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Wohlforth was a journalist who covered the spill in the field and after reading his account, I was humbled…

Let’s briefly compare the Exxon and BP spills. Exxon oil estimated to have spilled into Prince William Sound:

Read an interview I did with Mongabay about the Gulf Oil spill more than a week ago (apologies for the lag time). Also watch for a comparison of the Exxon Valdez and Gulf oil spills coming soon…

In a humble effort at citizen journalism, we went around New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf asking people what they thought of the BP oil spill. Most of victims don’t have voices, but here is what a few of the humans thought (they wrote down their opinions or, on occasion, dictated it to…

BP says oil flow has stopped as cap is tested, although we’re not sure when there will be a permanent solution. But even if they manage to stop the oil, can BP stop the hate? Many people are certainly angry at BP. The Facebook Boycott BP page had 350,000 followers in early June and is…

In the French Quarter of NOLA, shirts about the spill are a hot item. Here are a few favorites around town. For more, check out our Flickr set devoted to oil spill t-shirts.

“The bucketheads are here,” Jeff Holmes radioed back to his camp in Grand Bayou Village, a totally bizarre and charming outcropping of homes built on salt marshes that Holmes is worried will disintegrate under a thin but suffocating blanket of oil that is creeping up the bayou. That is, in part, why he has volunteered…

Here is the dead wildlife tally as of yesterday: As you can see, birds are hit hardest (or most often discovered). So we headed to the International Bird Rescue’s Buras, LA operation, where they take many of the oiled pelicans, gulls, and terns. Most of the birds spend 2-3 weeks in recovery and they spend…