The oil spill has leaked millions of gallons ... nearly 12,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil have spilled out into the Gulf of Mexico after the powerful winds of Hurricane Ivan knocked over a Taylor ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas. At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope ...

In the Gulf of Mexico, or the Gulf of California as some ... As crude oil was being pumped from well below the ocean floor, a natural gas leak traveled up the riser rig platform.

We have all been reading about the blowout that led to huge fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Now there is news that there is a huge oil spill coming ...

Last Friday, the ocean was on fire. Yes, you read that correctly — a gas leak on an oil drilling platform operated by Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex set ablaze in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

The widespread pollution from the BP oil spill caused fishing closures across 88,500 square miles. The Gulf of Mexico is home to more than 500 fish species ... Clean-up efforts only remove a fraction ...

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion ... The environmental damage would be worst if a spill were to reach the Louisiana shore, 50 miles away. Deepwater Horizon ...

It may be decades until the true consequences of the oil spill on wildlife are understood. During the oil spill, about one-third of the Gulf of Mexico’s waters were closed to fishing. Some fisheries ...