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

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, ...

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, ...

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 effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt. FILE – A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21 ...

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.

President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority.

The Deepwater Horizon's April 20, 2010, explosion caused 11 deaths. The case is In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, U.S. District Court ...

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

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean ...