In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

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 ...

The explosion triggered a massive spill of crude oil, which flowed into the Gulf for 87 days before it was capped. An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil were discharged into the ocean ...