Efforts continue to clean up 168,000 gallons of marine fuel oil that spilled into Texas’s Galveston Bay - which shut down the Houston Ship Channel - one of the United States’ busiest seaports, after a collision between a barge and a cargo ship on Saturday, March 22, 2014.
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A crew works to clean oil from the shore area on the Eastern end of Galveston, Texas. Houston Chronicle / Cody Duty / AP Photo -
An oil-covered boom along the East Beach in Galveston, Texas. Thousands of gallons of tar-like oil spilled into the Houston Ship Channel after a barge ran into a ship. Pat Sullivan / AP Photo -
An oil-soaked laughing gull at the Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary in Port Bolivar, Texas. Joe Smith / Houston Audubon Society / Reuters -
More than 750 people are working to resolve the oil spill. Thomas Shea / Getty Images / AFP -
The oil spill, which occurred on Satuday, March 22, 2014, has forced the closure of the 50-mile Houston Ship Channel. Thomas Shea / Getty Images / AFP -
More than 750 people are working to resolve the oil spill. Thomas Shea / Getty Images / AFP -
The oil spill is threatening a refuge that is crucial for thousands of bird species including those of the lesser scaup duck, above. Thomas Shea / Getty Images / AFP -
More than 750 people are working to resolve the oil spill. Houston Chronicle / Karen Warren / AP Photo -
About 69,000 feet of oil-absorbing boom have been placed around the site of the spill and along sensitive shorelines, according to the US Coast Guard. Thomas Shea / Getty Images / AFP
In pictures: Texas oil spill clean-up
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