Scenes of the Spill: Photos of the BP Gulf Oil Spill

U.S. Coast Guard personal unload containers housing Brown Pelicans, Rockport, Texas.

June 23, 2010

Pelicans coated in oil are cleaned and cared for at the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC)in Fort Jakson, LA.

Released June 23, photographed June 9, 2010.

Patrick, a Spongebob Squarepants character, covered in oil, on a sign in Grand Isle, La.

June 22, 2010

A sample of water drawn from the Bay of St. Louis on the Miss.Gulf coast.

June 21, 2010

Waves seen from the beach in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

June 20, 2010

BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is sworn in before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for a hearing on 'The Role Of BP In The Deepwater Horizon Explosion And Oil Spill.'

June 17, 2010

A mock cemetery in Grand Isle, La mourns what has been lost from the BP Oil Spill.

June 16, 2010

President Barack Obama and Florida Governor Charlie Crist look at the Casio Beach section of Pensacola Beach.

Later in a speech in the Oval Office, Obama refers to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as "the most painful and powerful reminder yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now."

June 15, 2010

The winning sculpture in the Fiesta of Five Flags sand-sculpture contest at Pensacola Beach, Fl. Many of the sculptures expressed anger towards BP and sadness about the effects of the oil spill.

See this sculpture larger.

June 8, 2010

Brown pelicans soaked in oil waiting to be cleaned at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, La.

June 7, 2010

A laughing gulll coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf in East Grand Terre Island, La.

See 16 Birds Threatened by the BP Gulf Oil Spill.

June 4, 2010

A brown pelican coated in oil attempts to take flight on East Grand Terre Island, La.

See 16 Birds Threatened by the BP Gulf Oil Spill.

June 4, 2010

A contract working picking up oil on a public beach in Dauphin Island, Al.

June 2, 2010

Oil on the shores of Dauphin Island, Ala.

June 1, 2010

Left by the side of the road in Grand Isle, La.

May 30th, 2010

President Barack Obama picks up a ball of tar while touring the beach in Port Fourchon, La.

May 28, 2010

A crab maneuvers around tarballs of oil on the beach of Grand Isle, La.

May 23, 2010

Natural Resource Defense Fund's (NRDC) crew in South Pass, La.

May 12, 2010

During a boat trip to South Pass, La., where the Gulf of Mexico meets the Mississippi River, our friends at the Natural Resource Defense Fund (NRDC) saw oil that had washed ashore and pooled near a group of reeds.

May 10, 2010

The gorgeous landscape and diverse wildlife of Venice, La., are at risk due to the oil spill.

Our friends at the Natural Resource Defense Fund (NRDC) took this shot while visiting the Gulf Oil Spill area.

May 10, 2010

A plane loaded with oil dispersant flies over the Louisiana shore.

May 5, 2010

A dead shark washed ashore in Ship Island, Miss. Two weeks after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, observers already are seeing signs of stress in the ecosystem.

May 4, 2010

A welder working on the BP subsea oil recovery system chamber. This was one of many devices used to try to contain the oil leak.

April 26, 2010

Response boats work to clean up the oil.

April 22, 2010

The Coast Guard battles the fire and searches for survivors of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout.

April 21, 2010