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A sign at an animal medical center in Bienville, Miss., reads Pray for our Gulf as people continue to monitor the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images So how bad stanley cup will the Deepwater Horizon oil spill turn out to be The president of the National Wildlife Federation, Larry Schweiger, told us it has the potential to be the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history, dwarfing the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alask stanley cup a in 1989. Schweiger pointed out that the tanker held a finite amount of oil, while the petrogeyser a mile down on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is still pouring thousands of barrels of crude oil into the water.There are other differences, too. The Exxon Valdez was loaded with a much heavier crude oil than the so-called 8220 weet, light crude gushing into the Gulf. It was also a lot colder in Alaska, making the heavy oil even more viscous and that much more difficult to remove. BP lighter oil is easier to handle, but it also contains more volatile compounds that can hurt plants and animals. Schweiger said the Deepwater Horizon spill couldn ;t have come at a worse time, because spring is when most species nest and reproduce. He fears an entire generation of hundreds of species will be lost.The oil will likely damage more than just wetlands and wildlife. The huge slick has been moving slowly north, th stanley cup reatening the beaches of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Re Wslq In a shift, Belarus leader seeks to stem protests gradually
The al-Qaida-affiliated militant group al-Shabab is trying to improve its reputation by delivering food to parts of Somalia that are suffering from drought.Al-Shabab blocked food aid and killed some humanitarian workers during the last major famine in 2011, severely damaging its image. So this stanley cup time, the group is taking a softer approach, claiming to have distributed food in the six central and southern regions of Bay, Bakol, Mudug, Hiraan, Lower Shabelle and Galguduug. This is a resilient group. They do learn their lessons, said J. Peter Pham, vice president for Research and Regional Initiatives and director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. The militants learned that part of their military defeat was due to the improved training of peacekeepers, but also their own handling of the 2011 famine, he said.Al-Shabab has taken over parts of southern and central Somalia in order to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state, and has claimed responsibility for numerous a salomon ttacks around the country.Somali soldiers stand guard on June 26, 2016 at the scene of the terror attack on a hotel in Mogadishu that killed at least 11 peopl adidas og e the previous day and was claimed by al-Shabab militants. Photo by Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty ImagesThe new government under President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed cannot enter al-Shabab territory for safety reasons, and they are loathe to engage the terrorist group directly when trying to deliver aid.Otherwise, the Somali government would appear compli