In December 2024, Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that will affect wildlife in the oceans and on the shores for a long time. But can microorganisms come to the rescue? bacteria constitute a ...

(This is a guest post from Gail the Actuary at The Oil Drum it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License) We have all been reading about the blowout ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Oil began leaking from a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico on May 11th, but it has received a surprisingly low amount of coverage. This is what it ...

The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than ...

The presidential commission probing the oil spill said Thursday that both BP and Halliburton knew the cement mixture sealing at the Deepwater Horizon well might not hold, but disregarded its flaws.

Oil Spill Awareness Quiz, Part 2 You know that the Gulf of Mexico is now the scene of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, but how much do you really know about oil spills?

Eight research teams will receive more than $112 million over three years to study the effects of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the independent granting body established by BP after ...

The research team—comprising oceanographers at Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee and researchers at a West Virginia-based non-profit organization called SkyTruth—examined satellite images ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...