Houston: The US government intensified its response to a spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, mobilising the military to try to avert an environmental disaster along the fragile coastline of Louisiana and three other Gulf states.

NEW ORLEANS: A BP executive on Thursday agreed with a U.S. government estimate that the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could be pumping up to 5,000 barrels a day of crude into the ocean, far more than previously thought.

April 28: With a vast oil slick now within only 20 miles of the ecologically fragile Louisiana coastline, Coast Guard officials said they were considering a

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Ahmedabad: Marine conservation initiatives along the India coastline are set to receive a major boost with the induction into the Indian Coast Guard, a pollution control vessel, which is one of its kind in Asia.

BERHAMPUR: Fears of an eco-disaster loomed large after around 20 carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles were found at different places from Purunabandha to Prayagi on the stretch of Gopalpur beach on Friday. While environmentalists attributed the turtle deaths to oil spill, a senior Forest official dismissed the claim.

Sib Kumar Das

BERHAMPUR: Carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles were sighted floating near the Rushikulya rookery on the Orissa coast after an oil spill from a ship near the Gopalpur port.

Environmental activists suspect this to be the impact of the spill. Some 25 carcasses were reported to be floating between Prayagi and Arjipalli since Thursday. Most were two to three days old.

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Three days after an oil spill from the Essar-owned coking coal-laden vessel MV Malavika near Gopalpur port of Orissa, leading environmental NGO Greenpeace claimed the Olive Ridley turtle nesting site might still be under threat.

THE Indian Coast Guard averted a major oil disaster after it swiftly swung into action following a heavy fuel leak from a merchant vessel anchored off the Orissa coast on Wednesday.

MV Malavika, owned by the Essar Shipping Private limited, was anchored off Gopalpur on Monday.

BERHAMPUR/PARADIP: With the operation to remove the spilled oil in full swing at Gopalpur, the apprehension of an environmental disaster has been minimised to a great extent.