Read here and here and here. Although it's still too early to determine the full extent of environmental damage done by the oil spill, scientists and researchers examining its affects are reporting that scaremongering predictions of disaster are not coming true. The environmental Cassandra disaster alarmists are found to be wrong again.
The goods news is that they were wrong; the bad news is that scientists who brandish environmental scare tactics continue to degrade the trust and credibility of all science.
"The news out of the Gulf of Mexico doesn't look too bleak, according to preliminary reports here today at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society.....Among the bits of good news is that so far chemical testing on seafood hasn't yet turned up any samples from fish, shrimp, or oysters with dangerous levels of contamination.....Erik Cordes, a marine ecologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said his first look at some deep seafloor ecosystems was encouraging....."Right now things seem to be improving a lot faster than I ever dreamed,"."