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In a steamy Louisiana marsh, crickets do their best impersonation of a canary in a coal mine. Afloat in orange cages on the coastal wetland, the featherless chirpers warn researchers [...]

Nearly two years have passed since the explosions aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, leased by BP and owned by Transocean, killed eleven men and unleashed nearly five million [...]

Kathy Gault is ready. She can feel the nervous excitement building up inside, telling her it's time to get to work. Standing on the beach, feeling the ocean breeze caress [...]

WHERE LAND MEETS THE SEA in the Mississippi River Delta, down at the bottom of the Louisiana boot, the term 'coastline' doesn't really apply. There is no line. There are [...]

Byline: Linda Marsa Scott Porter remembers the last time he felt completely well. It was a warm, clear day with sparkling blue skies in June 2010. A deep-sea diver and [...]

A writer visits the Gulf of Mexico to observe the effects of the BP oil spill. BP has admitted that around 60,000 barrels of oil is flowing into the Gulf daily. Migrating birds cannot feed on the baitfish due to contamination while their resting grounds are filled with sticky crude.

The Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health has invited donors and volunteers to witness firsthand the damage being wreaked on the ecosystem by oil spill catastrophe in [...]

April marked the five-year anniversary of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the biggest oil industry disaster in history. Caused by a massive drilling-platform explosion that killed 11 people, [...]

A tragedy and its aftermath What America has learned from its largest-ever spill ON APRIL 20th it will be five years since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 [...]

The not-so-lucky survivors The state government, BP and oysterers argue about compensation for the death of a Louisiana delicacy IN GOOD years, Louisiana's oyster fishermen produce about 40% of America's [...]

Byline: Jim Redden US could find some answers at Ekofisk Vol. 231 No. 9 JIM REDDEN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR US could find some answers at Ekofisk Raise your hand if you [...]

As the Gulf oil spill approached the end of its second month, President Obama said an interesting thing to Politico columnist Roger Simon: 'The overwhelming majority of the American people' [...]

The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill sparked a massive, ongoing die-off of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, a new study suggests. Dead common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) examined [...]

John McNeill, history professor, Georgetown The deliberate rupture of the dikes on China's Yellow River in 1938, by Chinese troops trying to halt a Japanese advance. It killed half a [...]

Scientists predict that a 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico could expand to between 8,500 and 9,421 square miles this year, roughly the size of New Jersey and Delaware [...]

'A DEATHTRAP OF MUCUS gashing through the water like flypaper.' That's how Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Georgia, describes the effect of the oil [...]

A Year has passed since the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil-drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The broken underwater well spewed about 760 million liters (200 million gallons) of [...]

The first time I saw the live video feed of the Deepwater Horizon's gushing oil, I knew that BP had grossly underestimated the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf [...]

WHEN I FIRST VENTURED INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO IN THE 1950S, THE SEA appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that [...]

Despite the seemingly permanent capping of the Macondo well (the remnant of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion), concern about the disaster's long-term toll on birds and their habitat remains [...]

Alpha BioSystems Inc. and iSi Environmental Services, both from Wichita, Kansas, and Aqua-Terra Recycling and Treatment of Georgia have teamed up to clinch a contract involving a cleanup of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast region. In the partnership, Alpha will provide petroleum-gobbling bacteria, while iSi will lead field implementation using Aqua-Terra's manpower and equipment.

While the effects of the massive Gulf Coast oil leak will be devastating for coastal wetlands and beaches, the cleanup process could be even more damaging to the areas sensitive [...]

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Five Years Later April marked the five-year anniversary of the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the biggest oil industry disaster in history. Caused by a [...]

Oil that gushed from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon site may be lying low. As much as 16 percent of the approximately 5 million barrels of oil let loose into the [...]