A Canada goose covered in oil attempts to fly out of the Kalamazoo River in Marshall, Mich., Tuesday, July 27. Crews were working to contain and clean up oil from a ruptured pipeline that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. An estimated 877,000 gallons of oil leaked from a pipeline into the river.

An aerial view shows a cleared forest area under development for palm oil plantations in Kapuas Hulu district, Indonesia's West Kalimantan province on July 6. The photograph was taken as part of a media trip organised by conservationist group Greenpeace, which has campaigned against palm oil expansion in forested areas in Indonesia.

Seashells coated with oil by the shore in Dalian on July 26, after a pipeline blast leaked 1,500 tonnes of heavy crude into the sea.