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Byline: Beatrice Gitau Chemical agents dropped from a plane on the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico removed oil from the water's surface but did not help [...]

Byline: Samantha Laine It has been nearly five years since the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but the disaster's devastating impact on Gulf Coast ecosystems remains. A new report released [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino Four years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill released more than 200 million gallons of crude into the water, a leading environmental organization says the migratory [...]

Byline: Fabien Tepper When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion sent plumes of crude oil billowing through the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic bluefin tuna who breed there were at [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino John Barrios sighs wearily after a full morning of shrimping in his 16-foot aluminum boat. His reddish-brown skin bears witness to a lifetime under a beating sun: [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Louisiana's only stretch of beach is perhaps prettier than ever, its rough sand smoothed daily by armadas of BP-funded beach zambonis combing for tar patties. At the [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Gulf shrimp-boat captains from Louisiana to Florida aren't finding anything wrong with their catch as they motor into waters reopened after this summer's oil spill off the [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Remember the news earlier this month that an oil and gas platform had caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing its 13 workers to [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson A big squirt of concrete and it was done. Five months after the start of the Gulf oil spill, BP on Sunday finally killed the renegade Macondo [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino On a morning stroll down the serene beaches of Grand Isle State Park, a visitor can watch as waves quietly lap the shore, birds sail overhead, a [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts Microbes found in an undersea cloud of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout may have the potential to degrade oil faster than previously thought, according to a [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts A plume of oil some 700 feet thick and at least 21 miles long has been detected deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico. It originated at the [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Few things would say 'the beaches are back' like President Obama tearing off his shirt and running into the surf at Panama City, Fla., during a brief [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser As BP prepares final operations to permanently seal the once-out-of-control oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana residents are both relieved and wary. Many see government [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino Darren Martin is a third-generation shrimp boat operator - and as far as he knows fishing may be in his blood even beyond that. His family has [...]

Byline: Mark Sappenfield After months of defying repeated attempts to subdue it, the well at the center of the Gulf oil spill capitulated quietly Wednesday morning, with BP's 'static kill' [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts The public summary of a new federal report on the fate of the oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts With oil no longer flowing from the Gulf blowout, and green shoots beginning to appear in some patches of marshland where oil from the damaged well made [...]

Byline: Mark Clayton, Mark Guarino BP did not make things worse by using massive quantities of dispersant to combat the Gulf oil spill, according to research released Monday by the [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts Long after the effects of the Gulf oil spill subside, southern Louisiana will still face its long-term nemesis: inexorable erosion as the Mississippi Delta subsides and sea [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Since BP capped the renegade Macondo well at the center of the Gulf oil disaster 12 days ago, the oil slick has shrunk to about 10,000 square [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull The oil giant BP reported a $17 billion loss for the year's second quarter - a gargantuan hit to the firm that reflects key costs of the [...]

Byline: Sue Wunder The Wabash River cuts diagonally across Indiana before joining the Ohio at the southwest tip of Posey County. Heavy June rains fed the Midwestern waterway lavishly. Arriving [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts A group of prominent coastal scientists is calling for a halt to large-scale engineering projects - like Louisiana's berm plan - aimed at protecting wetlands from encroaching [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson After dodging a bullet with hurricane Alex last month, BP and the Coast Guard now face a storm that threatens to veer dangerously close to the massive [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser Questions about air pollution related to the BP oil spill may get some clearer answers this coming week, as university researchers and a Louisiana environmental group release [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson The identity of the 'mystery plumber' whose homemade design for a new containment cap may have helped to finally stanch the Gulf oil spill geyser emerged Saturday. [...]

Byline: Laurent Belsie For years to come, the United States and the oil industry will be absorbing the lessons of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Regulators will [...]

Byline: Cheryl Sullivan For more than a week, high seas in the Gulf of Mexico have confounded some - but not all - of the massive efforts to clean up [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser Along state Highway 1 on Grand Isle, La., a flagpole in one yard is flying the Stars and Stripes at half staff and upside down. The Bridge [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson BP and the US Coast Guard have agreed to allow wildlife rescuers to pluck sea turtles out of corralled oil patches to keep them from being incinerated [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino It is highly likely that oil moving through the Gulf of Mexico will soon end up affecting the Florida Keys and the Miami and Fort Lauderdale coastlines, [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Santa Rosa Island officials flew the double-red flag - no swimming - over Pensacola Beach in Florida after a swath of thick oil washed ashore from the [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser As the prospect of an active hurricane season adds a new dimension to the on-going BP Gulf oil spill disaster, on-line media is awash with rumors of [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Ron Greve expects the worst is yet to come in the oil spill drama that is haranguing beach towns all along the US Gulf Coast. So, like [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts Raining oil in Louisiana? Oil on the ground, very likely. Raining oil, no. A YouTube video has been making the rounds purporting to show evidence of oil [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson A sunbathing family spots a beached baby dolphin covered in oil from the Gulf oil spill. The family tries to scrape off the oil until a wildlife [...]

Byline: Eoin O'Carroll Raining oil in Louisiana? An unsettling - and unverified - amateur video shows what appears to be the aftermath of an oily rain in Louisiana, some 45 [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Along at least eight miles of this part of the Florida coast, tar balls from the Gulf oil spill washed ashore Tuesday night. 'My friends went swimming [...]

Byline: Mark Guarino BP has removed the containment cap that had been responsible for collecting as much as 16,000 barrels of oil a day from the leaking well in the [...]

Byline: Edward B. Barbier and Judith D. Schwartz What do the Gulf oil spill and Europe's debt crisis have in common? Both are the result of a missed opportunity. And [...]

Byline: Bill Sasser From Billy Nungesser's plan to dredge sand barriers across Louisiana's southern coast to Kevin Costner's oil-water separator, many big ideas are being thrown at the ever-growing slicks [...]

Byline: Mark Sappenfield BP's public relations gaffes in the Gulf oil spill are continuing, with Chief Executive Tony Hayward attending a yacht race in England Saturday. But on the sea [...]

Byline: Patrik Jonsson The Coast Guard Friday 'redoubled' efforts to keep the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from impacting Gulf states by calling in more skimming boats and equipment from the [...]

Byline: Mark Trumbull The chairman of BP announced Friday that the company's CEO, Tony Hayward, will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for managing the company's oil spill response in the [...]

Byline: Pete Spotts Scientists are groping in the deep, lightless waters of the Gulf of Mexico, trying to take the full measure of oil that has been detected several thousand [...]

Byline: Matt Rocheleau Eleven days prior to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton Co., the contractor in charge of cementing the rig's well, agreed to purchase a little-known company. [...]