Oil Environment

We Are All Trapped in a Global Oil Slick

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Johann Hari

Petrol pours off each of us like an invisible sweat. The 20th century was propelled into the stratosphere on a geyser of oil, and nobody wanted to ask where it was coming from, or what it would cost us in the end.

Damage From Oil Industry Is Chronic Problem, But Goes Unnoticed

McClatchy | Tom Knudson | Posted 05.25.2011

There's no denying that the rust-red plumes of oil and tar balls in the Gulf of Mexico are a potential ecological calamity for American Southern shore...