Oil refinery on bank of Mississippi near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

Northern rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes moseleyi) covered in spilled oil from the wreck of the MS Oliva, Nightingale island, Tristan da Cunha Group, South Atlantic Ocean

A fracking truck next to a site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A fracking truck on a site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A fracking site being fracked near Wasco in California's Central Valley, USA, next to a farmers Cotton crop. Fracking for natural gas and oil, has reduced energy prices in the US, but fracking is a water hungry industry, that competes directly with the agricultural sector for water. After a 4 year long drought water is running out. Fracking also contaminates ground water supplies from all the chemicals that are pumped underground to frack the fossil fuel bearing rocks.

A female Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) amongst oil spilled from fishing boats in Seahouses harbour, Northumberland, UK.

pollution: guillemot in oil slick. sands of forvie nnr, aberdeenshire, scotland

A Guillemot (Uria aalge) covered in oil on a black sand volcanic beach at Vik, on Iceland's south coast, Iceland, Polar Regions

A Guillemot (Uria aalge) covered in oil on a black sand volcanic beach at Vik, on Iceland's south coast, Iceland, Polar Regions

A Guillemot (Uria aalge) covered in oil on a black sand volcanic beach at Vik, on Iceland's south coast, Iceland, Polar Regions

Waste oil barrels on the tundra outside Ilulissat in Greenland with icebergs behind from the Sermeq Kujalleq (Ilulissat Ice fjord), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Greenland, Polar Regions

Oil storage depot in Ilulissat on Greenland, Polar Regions

A worker vacuums oil from behind a containment boom on the Kalamazoo River during the cleanup of a major oil spil in which 800, 000 gallons of oil spilled from an Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Workers place containment boom on the Kalamazoo River to contain an oil spill during which 800, 000 gallons of oil spilled from an Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

A worker vacuums oil from behind a containment boom on the Kalamazoo River during the cleanup of a major oil spil in which 800, 000 gallons of oil spilled from an Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Oil slick on the beach, Galle, Sri Lanka, Ceylon, South Asia

Clean-up crews sucking oil with vacuum tubes and placing absorbent pompom booms. East Grand Terre was involved in a Barrier Island restoration project before the oil spill.

Press tour with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Clean-up crews sucking oil with vacuum tubes and placing absorbant pompom booms. East Grand Terre was involved in a Barrier Island restoration project before the oil spill.

Oil booms surround the rookery of Queen Bess Island, a well known bird nesting sanctuary in Barataria Bay, now coated in heavy oil at the base of the mangroves.

Oil booms surround the rookery of Queen Bess Island, a well known bird nesting sanctuary in Barataria Bay, now coated in heavy oil at the base of the mangroves.

Near Grand Terre Island with NOAA staff to inspect oil booms and to collect and oil sample. Oil slicks on the surface are apparent everywhere.

Press tour with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Clean-up crews sucking oil with vacuum tubes and placing absorbant pompom booms. East Grand Terre was involved in a Barrier Island restoration project before the oil spill.

Clean-up crews sucking oil with vacuum tubes and placing absorbent pompom booms.

A dead blue crab amidst oil soaked beach and seaweed.

LA Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Clint Edds monitoring oil slicked marsh grasses at the northeastern edge of Barataria Bay.

LA Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Clint Edds monitoring oil slicked marsh grasses at the northeastern edge of Barataria Bay.

Near Grand Terre Island with NOAA staff to inspect oil booms and to collect and oil sample. Oil slicks on the surface are apparent everywhere.

LA Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Clint Edds monitoring oil slicked marsh grasses at the northeastern edge of Barataria Bay.

Commercial fishing boats have been converted to oil cleanup crews as part of the "vessels of opportunity" program managed by BP.

Preparing an oil boom on Elmers Island, LA.

Near Grand Terre Island. Oil slicks on the surface are apparent everywhere.

Near Grand Terre Island. Oil slicks on the surface are apparent everywhere.

Oil splashed up over the jetty on Grand Isle State Park. The jetty along Barataria pass.