The BP oil spill—triggered by the Deepwater Horizon explosion 15 years ago last month—remains the worst environmental ...

For as long as there has been an oil industry, there have been oil spills. They're caused by a number of factors, from ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

Since the incident was first reported near Garden Island Bay on April 26, responders have deployed 20,300 feet of containment ...

One morning in early April 2024, Elías Naal Hernández set out with his fishing net to try his luck in the waters of Isla Aguada, off the coast of southeastern Mexico. The town sits between the Gulf of ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three ...

Most offshore oil and gas projects in 2024 were linked to widespread pollution, with satellite data revealing frequent oil ...

Our study detected an unprecedented spike in the area of polluted land in 2022, which we associate with the substantial quantity of oil spilled in the area in 2022. The largest of these spills saw ...

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that ...