By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...

A small Kansas county became a site of a significant pipeline failure last week as the Keystone Pipeline leaked an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek — the largest spill in its ...

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 ...

Santa Barbara was the first, with oil spills spawning an environmental ethic that is central to the city’s identity. In 1969, another major spill at an offshore oil platform disgorged 100,000 ...

10. The Odyssey oil spill released 40.7 million gallons of oil On November 10, 1988, the oil tanker Odyssey was in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. An explosion onboard caused it to ...

The cause of the malfunction is still being investigated, but images of blackened farmland sloping into the creek at the spill site evince the scale of the environmental impact. The oil spill ...

In 2006, another tanker leaked about 109,000 gallons of oil off the Philippine coast in the worst spill in the country's history to date. Two weeks ago, an oil tanker known as the MT Princess ...