Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

The BP oil spill happened 15 years ago. It is still considered one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen. The oil giant paid out $65 billion in cleanup costs, charges and ...

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery ... the stars and confuses terrestrial animals, but what impact does it have on the sea?

The oil quickly reached the coast and spread south, within a few days washing up on beaches more than 50 miles away. The slick was not as large as originally feared, but still harmed and killed ...

Hidden within sphagnum moss, commonly known as peat moss, is an adsorbent material that can help us combat oil spills. A study by researchers from China presents a new bio-based oil adsorbent ...

The incident was not the first – nor the last – of the oil spills that have plagued the Marañón River and the people living along its banks. The watercourse, which is a lifeblood of Peru’s ...

A proposed extension that would have brought crude oil to the Gulf Coast was shut down in 2021 after years of protests. The pipeline has had at least three significant spills since 2017 ...

As the Trump administration expands offshore oil and gas, they are concerned the best opportunities for rebuilding the Gulf Coast are slipping away. Tying health problems to the spill remains hard ...