The Gulf War
Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and how the BP oil spill devastated the local environment.
Television images showed suffocating swirls of crude and sickly pelicans. But Raffi Khatchadourian found you had to travel an hour or more to see the oil. By early summer, the BP spill had caused only twenty-five miles of "heavy oiling" on sixteen hundred miles of Gulf coastline. One had to hunt for it.