Nature proves friend and foe to efforts to fight oil spill | al.com

Nature proves friend and foe to efforts to fight oil spill | al.com: "'The entire eastern portion of the sheen seems to have disappeared,' said Phil Woods of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. 'It's breaking down rapidly. The solids that remain are emulsified. And while they are going to be hard to deal with, we're not going to have black beaches.'"