NEW ORLEANS – September 13, 2010 – Marsh grasses matted by oil are still a common sight on the gulf coast here, but so are green shoots springing up beneath them.
In nearby bird colonies, carcasses are still being discovered, but they number in the thousands, not the tens of thousands that have died in other oil spills.
And at the mouth of the Mississippi River, the zone of severely oxygen-depleted water that forms every summer has reappeared, but its size does not seem to have been affected by the Deepwater Horizon spill.
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