photo: Creative Commons
Moers
photo: AP / Dave Martin
Oil cleanup workers skim for oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., during a heavy rain storm Sunday, July 18, 2010.
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Kinnow, a variety of Mandarin orange widely cultivated in Pakistan
photo: AP / Dave Martin
Oil cleanup workers use absorbent booms to collect oil and tar balls in Orange Beach Ala., Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Oil washed ashore with the tide overnight, leaving an ugly stain that brought out dozens of BP workers to clean.
photo: AP / Jay Reeves
Workers handle oil-blocking booms in a parking lot in Orange Beach, Ala., as people lay on the beach across Perdido Pass, Sunday, May 9, 2010.
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Oranges and orange juice
photo: AP / Dave Martin
A blue heron stands as oil cleanup boats work in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. New waves of oil have not come ashore and cleanup work continues, leaving Alabama's beaches in much better condition than just a few days earlier.
photo: US Navy / Thomas L. Rosprim
Contract workers hired by BP move oil containment booms from shore to sea at Orange Beach, Ala., May 8, 2010. The workers are preparing for the possible landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico April 22, 2010. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Thomas L. Rosprim/Released)
photo: US Coastguard / PA1 Jeff Hall
Galveston, TX (Sept. 13)--Two off shore supply vessels working with Marine Safety Office Houston corral oranges in a containment boom during a INSITU Burn drill off Galveston, Texas Sept. 13. The drill simulates the collection of oil and the insineration of the oil while still on the water's surface. USCG photo by PA1 Jeff Hall (115658) ( OIL CONTAINMENT DRILL (FOR RELEASE) )
photo: US Coastguard / PA1 Jeff Hall
Galveston, TX (Sept. 13)--Two off shore supply vessels working with Marine Safety Office Houston corral oranges in a containment boom during a INSITU Burn drill off Galveston, Texas Sept. 13. The drill simulates the collection of oil and the insineration of the oil while still on the water's surface. USCG photo by PA1 Jeff Hall (115664) ( OIL CONTAINMENT DRILL (FOR RELEASE) )
photo: AP / Dave Martin
Oily waves come ashore in Orange Beach, Ala., Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Heavy seas from Tropical Storm Alex helped push more oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster towards the Florida and Alabama coasts.
photo: AP / Dave Martin
An oily sailboat heads out on a skimming mission in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., Thursday, July 1, 2010. A $4 million oil booming system at the opening of the pass came apart when six foot seas caused by Hurricane Alex battered the coast.
photo: Creative Commons / L.m.k
Bergamot orange
photo: Creative Commons / Etnacila
Part of the old city after several decades of being the battlefield where Kingdom of Castile and the Crown of Aragón clashed, Alicante became a major Mediterranean trading station exporting rice, wine, olive oil, oranges and wool.
photo: US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White.
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. Chief Petty Officer Brad Frost, of Hampden, Maine, directs the crane operator while stowing boom from the Spilled Oil Recovery System onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Juniper June 12, 2010. The crew of the Juniper, homeported in Newport, R.I., is skimming oil near the Alabama and Florida coast. In addition, the crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Oak, homported in Charleston, S.C., and the Coast Guard Cutter Cypress homeported in Mobile, Ala., which are also engaged in oil skimming
photo: US Coast Guard / PO2 John D. Miller
A commercial shrimp boat armed with boom leaves from Branch Terrebonne Parish, La., to search for a reported patch of oil following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the outer bands of Tropical Storm Alex darken the sky on the morning of Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
photo: Creative Commons / CarolSpears
Clementine
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Terracotta designs outside the Kantaji Temple.
photo: US Coastguard / PA3 Brian Leshak.
South Pacific (Jan. 10, 2005) Petty Officer Mike M. Stout loosens a bolt in a 110 degree room as he works on an oil/water separator. An oil/water separator makes it possible to return clean water to the ocean while underway. USCG photo by PA3 Brian Leshak. (100116) ( MELLON UNDERWAY (FOR RELEASE) )
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Glazed building decoration at the Forbidden City, Beijing, China.
photo: AP / George Osodi, File
** FILE ** An unidentified man walks along oil pipelines belonging to Italian oil company Agip in Obrikom, Nigeria in this Monday, March 6, 2006 file photo.
photo: Creative Commons / Pengo
A preserved specimen on display at a museum.
photo: Creative Commons / Camille Pissarro
View of Rouen, oil on canvas painting by Camille Pissaro, 1898, Honolulu Academy of Arts Returning to France, in 1890 Pissarro again visited England and painted some ten scenes of central London.
photo: U.S. Army/Spc. Timothy Kingston
A Black Hawk helicopter returns to Forward Operating Base McHenry Dec. 27, 2005, after passengers aboard assessed damage from an oil pipeline fire near Hawijah, Iraq. This photo appeared on www.army.mil.
photo: US Coastguard / PA3 Brian Leshak.
South Pacific (Jan. 10, 2005) Petty Officer Juan C. Cartegena pries open the lid to the oil/water seperater as fellow Machinery Technician Petty Officer Mike N. Stout waits to jump in an fix the problem. An oil/water seperater makes it possible to return clean water to the ocean while underway. USCG photo by PA3 Brian Leshak. (100101) ( MELLON UNDERWAY (FOR RELEASE) )
photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Colin White
Petty Officer 3rd Class, William Allen, an Alabama native looks down towards oil being collected by the Coast Guard Cutter Juniper’s Shipboard Oil-Recovery System, June 11, 2010, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
photo: US Navy / Justin Stumberg
Steve Henne, with Marine Spill Response Corp., returns to the ship Premier Explorer after a controlled burn in the Gulf of Mexico May 6, 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP, residents, and other federal agencies to contain the spread of oil caused by the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig April 20, 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Stumberg/Released)
photo: US Coastguard / Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert
FORT MACON, N.C. - A son of a crewmember aboard the Cutter Elm watches as the Elm returns home Nov. 3, 2010. The Elm's crew was deployed in May to respond to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill where they conducted oil skimming missions and helped direct operations between the Mississippi Delta and Panama City, Fla. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert (1041225) ( ElmReturns )
photo: AP / Charles Dharapak
President Barack Obama returns a salute as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to the Gulf Coast region where he will visit damage caused by the BP oil well spill, Sunday, May 2, 2010.
photo: AP / Alex Brandon
President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn after stepping off Marine One at the White House in Washington Friday, June 4, 2010. President Obama is returning after his third trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP PLC gulf oil spill.
