Oil slick reaches Louisiana's barrier islands
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 22:00
in Earth & Climate
An orange sheen washes onto beaches as BP starts lowering a dome to try to contain oil gushing from the sea floor. As an orange slick of oil washed onto sandy barrier islands prized as a historic wildlife refuge, crews on Thursday worked to lower a containment vessel over a leak 5,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, and federal officials...