Here's an article putting this disaster in proportion to other disasters...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/us/04enviro.html?hp

I'm not sure how I feel about the nytimes article saying 36 billion gallons were spilled in the iraqi/kuwait conflict. Seems off by a factor of 1000. That makes this particular spill much more severe than this article makes it seem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Wa...ll#cite_note-1