The community stories that string together across the Gulf coast paint a picture quite different from what BP, its contractors, and our government report.
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swa...
From peanut butter to beef and from listeria to E. coli and melamine in milk products from China, it seems as though consumers are inundated with news on one "food scare" after another. Is all this worry justified?
The dilemma of whether or not to eat seafood that could be tainted by the oil spill reminds me of how I felt about living in New York City in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
With oil from a gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico looming offshore, people here are buying and eating as much seafood as they can as fast as they can...
(*Scroll down for photos of Gulf Coast fishermen and their mitigation efforts underway.*) The AP reports: More than 6,800 square miles of federal fi...
Since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent oil spill, the degree of catastrophe facing the Gulf's s...
GHEENS, La. — Vicki Guillot has served her last seafood po-boy. The local bounty of fresh shrimp and oysters that once kept the only restaurant...
Indeed, floating islands of reddish-brown oil and rainbow sheens cover a third of the massive Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, shrimp and crab are abunda...
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) -- William Mahan bends over a bowl of raw shrimp and inhales deeply, using his left hand to wave the scent up toward his nose....
With the exception of oil lapping ashore along Louisiana's marshy wildlife refuge, near-shore fishing waters appear clear as ever. Seafood is still available.
