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The Times-Picayune is reporting both comforting and frightening news this morning: The good: BP said early Sunday afternoon that the mile-long tube working, drawing most of the leaking oil to the tanker from the Gulf seafloor. The not-so-good: Researchers have found more underwater plumes of oil than they can count from the blown-out well, said […]

This morning’s bad news comes via reports that the rate of the leak may be four or five times greater than the initially estimated 5,000 barrels a day, and may be much, much higher (84,000 barrels a day?). For a little (disturbing) hands-on exercise, here’s a widget that’ll let you choose your own numbers and […]

Photo: BP via the Houston Chronicle. Thanks, Natural Hazards Center.

From the Times-Picayune: Officials are saying the containment box that could divert much of the oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico is suspended above the spewing crude and robot submarines are trying to align it correctly. BP PLC spokesman Bill Salvin said Friday the device was in the process of being positioned over the […]

We haven’t been able to verify who pulled this together (nor have we checked the accuracy of the text), but there are some amazing photos here (PDF, 1.3 MB). (If anybody knows who wrote this, please let us know and we’ll give them credit.)