"In search of: Tarballs" Yahoo News By JOHN CAREY, environmental writer Where is all the oil? Nearly two weeks after BP finally capped the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, the oil slicks that once spread across thousands of miles of the Gulf of M… more »

By Jim Kavanagh, CNN (CNN) -- There's no way to stop oily water from reaching land along the Gulf Coast, but experts will use tools both massive and microscopic to clean it up. Oil-soaked sand on beaches in the eastern Gulf Coast can be scooped up wi… more »