September 12 is World Dolphin Day. Marine conservation and advocacy nonprofit Sea Shephard created the day in 2022 to ...

Federal regulators are asking for additional details about BP’s deepwater drilling proposal in the Gulf of Mexico, days after Democrats in Congress called on the Trump administration to reject the ...

THIS month 15 years ago, the US government declared the Deepwater Horizon oil well sealed, ending a catastrophic leak that spilled 4.9 million barrels (779 million litres, or 311 Olympic-sized pools’ ...

A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac ...

Lake Superior State University students are conducting research that could change how scientists respond to oil spills in freshwater systems. The students, working at the university's Center for ...

A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping UC Davis researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect offspring and later generations.

More than 2,300 shrimpers, boat owners and seafood businesses from across the Gulf Coast are suing two companies over an oil spill off Louisiana's coast on Aug. 8, 2022 — the opening day of shrimping ...

Crude oil pools at the site of a damaged pipeline north of Lake Arlington on May 8, 2025. The leak of 6,600 barrels occurred two days prior and contaminated wastewater in the Fort Worth sewer system.

In a major U-turn in energy policy, Mexico has unveiled a 10-year plan to reverse a years-long decline in oil and gas production by tapping more unconventional resources through fracking. Petroleos ...

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, severely damaging marine ecosystems. Part of the settlement money that BP ...

On Monday, July 21, the an oil spill was reported in Lake Superior to the US Coast Guard in Bayfield, Wisconsin. According to the initial survey, the USCG believed the size of the sheen indicated ...