BARATARIA BAY, La. – As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn’t fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble. Several ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. -- The Gulf of Mexico oil spill seeped miles deeper into Louisiana's fragile marshes, making it tougher to clean up or to rescue wildlife like the brown pelican, as the biggest ...

HOPELAND, LA. — The threatened Biloxi Marsh stretches for more than 20 miles from where the road ends at this fishing outpost to the open waters of the Gulf. Across the vast expanse of tall grass and ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. -- The Gulf of Mexico oil spill seeped miles deeper into Louisiana's fragile marshes, making it tougher to clean up or to rescue wildlife like the brown pelican, as the federal ...

GRAND ISLE, La. -- The spectacle many had feared for a month finally began unfolding as gooey, rust-colored oil washed into the marshes at the mouth of the Mississippi for the first time, stoking ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. -- As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn't fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble.

GRAND ISLE, La. - The spectacle many had feared for a month has begun unfolding as gooey, rust-colored oil washes into the marshes at the mouth of the Mississippi for the first time, stoking public ...

GULFPORT, Miss. — Shifting and easing winds on Monday bought time for weather-beaten crews to bottle up and burn off a massive slick of rust-colored crude oil before it fouls fragile marshes and ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. -- As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn't fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble. Several ...

It is unclear if the area can even be cleaned, or if the birds can be saved. Oil is seen on the tip of the bill of an oil-soaked pelican on an island in Barataria Bay just off the coast of Louisiana ...

With oil pushing at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes and two major pelican rookeries now coated in crude, Jindal said the state has begun work on a chain of berms, reinforced with containment ...