This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

(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 ...

In December 2024, Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic life and animals who lived near the shores of the sea. Unfortunately ...

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 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?

Federal wildlife officials reported that 1,144 sea turtles, 609 of which were dead, and 109 marine mammals (mostly dolphins, almost all of which had already died) were collected on or near the shore.

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 ...

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 ...

Following Google, Apple’s maps now show Trump’s Gulf of Mexico name change Following an executive order by President Trump, Apple has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps.

Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest ever spill in U.S. history at the time. The nearly 1,000-foot namesake tanker carrying tens of millions of gallons of oil ...