The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms ...

When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011, it led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, ...

Because oil is lighter than water, it rises through the ocean after spills, which are usually caused by leaking underwater pipelines or sometimes by natural processes. It was believed that when ...

By Max Martin As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst ...

By then, about 40,000 barrels of oil had escaped into the Atlantic Ocean, according to an English High Court evaluation, making the December 2011 incident one of Nigeria’s worst spills in a decade.

The black outline shows the estimated impacted area (1100 square miles) of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, significantly larger than previously reported areas (red and blue outlines ...

Rush says ocean can take care of itself. May 3, 2010— -- Scientists and environmentalists scoffed at Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the ocean would clean up itself following a devastating ...

2:24 p.m. March 11, 2024 An earlier version of this article stated that a Coast Guard official said the oil spill was caused by natural seepage from the ocean floor off Huntington Beach.

Though we’re still a ways off of detecting an oil spill or leak the moment it happens, many areas of Earth are imaged multiple times per day or even per hour in extremely high definition. This ...

A security specialist in the Western Indian Ocean sees how countries work together to counter the threat of a massive oil ...