How to efficiently clean up an oil spill!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/cleaning-oil-spill.htm

The past four weeks, we have been learning about oil spills and how they effect us and our environment. Therefore, I found it necessary to find out how cleanup crews find ways to clean up oil spills. How fast a cleanup crew can reach a spill ,along with other factors, like waves, currents and weather, determines what method a team uses to clean a spill. For example, if the cleanup crew can get there in one to two hours then they use the containment and skimming method. Cleanup crews may set the oil on fire in a process called in situ burning, but this produces toxic smoke, and probably wouldn't be used in a spill near coastal settlements.An oil spill reached relatively quickly and located away from towns is the easiest to clean up by one of these methods.

How specific animals being harmed still today by the oil spills

http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2010/Oil-spill-species.aspx

Twenty-one years after one of the biggest oil spills- the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the wildlife effected is still struggling to recover. Animals such as marine animals, fish and shellfish, birds, and seaturtles are all being effected. Five of the world’s seven species of sea turtles are found in the Gulf of Mexico, and all of these five are listed as either endangered or threatened, including the loggerhead turtle. This article was very interesting however sad. At the end of the article it gives you links to places where we can help. Check them out!