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 ...

BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year has moved off the front pages in most of the nation, though the damage done to the environment and economy of the Gulf region is far from ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

The Gulf of Mexico has been called the Gulf of Mexico since well before ... The Gulf of America, then, will henceforth be the ...

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, with new species continuing to be ...

Oil Spill Awareness Quiz, Part 1 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?

In the wake of the recent oil spill off the Louisiana coast, the Gulf of Mexico finds itself grappling with an environmental crisis reminiscent of the infamous Deepwater Horizon incident in 2010.

You might be hearing about the gulf off the coast of the U.S. and Mexico. Here's what to know about the body of water the ...

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 ...

1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it says. The first, massive oil spill happened in 1979, when millions of barrels of oil spilled into the ocean ...