Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

From poisoned workers to vanishing wetlands, the truth about BP’s toxic legacy in Louisiana is worse than you remember.

VENICE, La. - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast Thursday ...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill dumped about 11 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean near Alaska, devastating hundreds of thousands of animals. Dubacher said 20 bald eagles were brought from ...

In 1994, a federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, but the U.S Supreme Court later reduced that amount to ...

BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill In April 2010, an oil well on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 people and causing a leak of 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico ...

The spill is not the biggest ever in the Gulf. In 1979, a drilling rig in Mexican waters — the Ixtoc I — blew up, releasing 140 million gallons of oil.

An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil were discharged into the ocean, making it the largest accidental marine oil spill in history. This was the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010.

The tanker is carrying more than 150,000 tonnes of crude oil. Should a spill occur, it could be among the largest from a ship in recorded history. The US State Department warned in a statement on ...