[Pensacola Beach, June 23. Image via AP]

[Pensacola, Florida; June 6. Image via Getty]

Yesterday, Associated Press photographer Charlie Riedel took a devastating series of images of oil-soaked wildlife on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. At left, a brown pelican covered in crude. More of the set can be found here. [Boston Globe]

[Dauphin Island, Alabama; June 2. Image via Getty]

[Gulf of Mexico, May 9. Image via AP]