Gulf Oil Spill (Disaster Alert!)

by Lynn Peppas

Hardcover, 2011

Description

This up-to-date new book describes the alarming events of 2010 after an oil rig toppled over in the Gulf of Mexico releasing millions of gallons of oil into the water. The largest accidental oil spill in history, it killed untold numbers of wildlife, poisoned over a hundred miles of coastal land, and devastated the commercial fishing and tourism industries in an area still reeling from the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.

ISBN

0778715922 / 9780778715924

Status

Available

Call number

363.11

Collection

Publication

Crabtree Pub Co (2011), 32 pages

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

32 p.; 8.75 inches
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