Mongabay Latam and Data Crítica examined and compared official data of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, including satellite images by scientists studying oil spills and evidence compiled by fishing ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico. Past ...

White House puts pressure on BP, as BP denies responsibility for spill accident. May 3, 2010 — -- With the White House putting pressure on BP today, company executives promised to clean up the ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

—June 21, 2010 -- Science teachers nationwide are using the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a "teachable moment" as the school years ends, with most saying environmental issues will ...

While the world’s attention has been fixed on the nuclear crisis in Japan, we’re fast coming upon the one-year anniversary of another major environmental disaster: the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

For more than a week, the U.S. Coast Guard has been attempting to contain what it's calling "an uncontrolled oil and natural gas discharge" off the Gulf Coast. The Coast Guard on Friday said more than ...

When we last checked in on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a cap had stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf. That cap has held and much of the oil on the surface has dissolved. But this is hardly ...

At least the worst-case scenario—for once—isn’t happening in the Gulf of Mexico. When forecasters warned last week that a tropical depression was forming in the Carribean, Coast Guard officials ...

A week from today will mark the one-year anniversary of the oil rig explosion of Deepwater Horizon that triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. For three months, rust-colored sludge gushed ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months ...