Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause.

It’s Saturday morning and eleven year old Amina wears a white uniform –  splattered with crude oil stains. Amina and about 10 other children hold up placards as they lead the way in a protest march against a prominent oil company. Engen Oil Refinery is based in the heart of Merebank and Wentworth, in the South Durban Basin.

In the largest citizen enforcement action ever taken under the Clean Water Act, the Center for Biological Diversity has sued BP and Transocean Ltd., for illegally spewing more than 100 million gallons of oil and other toxic pollutants into the Gulf of Mexico. The suit was filed in federal court in New Orleans.

Earlier this week, we ran a story about the continuing oil-spilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Here we have an update which comes to you from a website specially created by the Center for Biological Diversity, which updates daily on the status of this situation.

It all began began on April 20th when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, caught fire, then sank in the Gulf of Mexico off Venice, Louisiana, leaving 11 crew members presumed dead.

Industrial ecologists use the term "partially diminished fraction," or PDF, to assess the extent to which a product somewhere along its life cycle harms ecosystems.

Two years too late, Shell has taken blame for the Nigerian oil spill. But saying sorry can be expensive. For Shell, having been forced to admit responsibility for one of the world's largest oil spills, flowers & chocolates won't be enough. The affected communities want more than R2.5 billion in compensation. And they'll probably get it.