Consequences: New reports are surfacing every day about the immediate impacts of the oil spill on Gulf Coast wildlife, especially as the oil reaches the sensitive marshlands along the coast.

New reports are surfacing every day about the immediate impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf Coast wildlife, especially as the oil reaches the sensitive marshlands along the coast.

Just seven species make up the known diversity of the world's sea turtles today, but these evolutionary marvels are encountering a growing number of threats. The marine reptiles, all of them endangered, have persisted for millions of years, moving from the sea to land for nesting, and traversing the great tropical and sub-tropical ocean basins as part of their life cycles.

Suzanne Goldenberg

There was mounting evidence on Tuesday night that the scale of the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has grown beyond all the initial worst-case scenarios, as thousands of gallons of oil continued to gush from the sea floor.

Rushikulya Rookery (Orissa), May 11, (PTI):

Thousands of eggs of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles on the beach adjoining river Rushikulya in Ganjam district have failed to hatch this year because of the recent oil spill at a nearby port, conservationists claim.

C Shivakumar | ENS

We won't allow the inlet and outlet pipe. This is a tourist spot and not an industrial area... Do you know, our ground water table has depleted. This is what we have been left with

RUSHIKULYA ROOKERY (ORISSA): Mass hatching of Olive Ridley turtle eggs has begun at this major nesting site under the shroud of environmental degradation caused by oil spill from a ship recently.

The mass hatching, which started on Saturday night, is expected to continue for next two to three days.