Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico


There has been much coverage of the oil slick that is spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, and the environmental impact of the leaks in the submarine pipe as the oil threatens to come ashore, and also be carried to remote locations by currents in the area.

A recent discovery via Twitter is a Google map tool by the talented Paul Rademacher which takes a map of the spill area, and allows you to compare it with the size of cities to visualise the area that is covered by the spill. It uses the Google Earth plugin in Google Maps to great effect.

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