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A decaying tanker holds about four times the amount of oil leaked in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. Experts have warned that it is an ecological time bomb that could [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Sarah Dadouch The United Nations has turned to crowdfunding to raise the $80 million needed to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis The United Nations has turned to crowdfunding to raise the $80 million needed to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker in [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis The United Nations has turned to crowdfunding to raise the $80 million needed to remove more than a million barrels of oil from a decaying tanker in [...]

Byline: Brady Dennis The White House on Thursday issued new regulations governing offshore oil rigs in an attempt to prevent oil-well blowouts and minimize environmental damage from future leaks. The [...]

MOSCOW -- A fire on an oil platform in the Caspian Sea burned on Monday for a fourth day, and the Azerbaijani company that operates the site warned that the [...]

The following editorial appeared in Monday's Washington Post: Yet another train carrying tons of unrefined oil derailed last week, this time in Lynchburg, Va. Fifteen oil cars jumped their tracks, [...]

WASHINGTON -- One of Shell Oil's two Arctic drilling rigs is beached on an island in the Gulf of Alaska, threatening environmental damage from a fuel spill and calling into [...]

Byline: NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE ENERGY CALGARY -- As crews work to mop up more than a million litres of oil that has spilled in Alberta in a month, Premier Alison Redford [...]

Completing the first step needed to avert an environmental disaster off Italy's coast, salvage experts have emptied the tanks containing most of the fuel aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship, [...]

DENVER -- This summer, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying oil across Montana burst suddenly, soiling the swollen Yellowstone River with an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude just weeks after a [...]

HOUSTON -- In his first public address to oil industry executives since becoming chief of BP, Robert Dudley said the entire industry needed to change to prevent another devastating deepwater [...]

The final report from the presidential commission investigating the gulf oil spill rightly warns that government regulation alone can't prevent another such disaster. The blowout reflected industrywide weaknesses, not just [...]

The Obama administration's decision to lift its moratorium on deep-water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico came with a vital condition: Each company and each rig must first demonstrate [...]

LONDON -- As the United States lifted its moratorium on deepwater oil drilling Tuesday, the European Commission was on the verge of proposing a curb on drilling in extreme conditions [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Monday that it would require significantly more environmental review before approving new offshore drilling permits, ending a practice in which government regulators [...]

BEIJING -- Chinese officials are requiring ports around the country to revise their operations to better prevent oil spills in the aftermath of a pipeline explosion last week that resulted [...]

Byline: Rick Jervis NEW ORLEANS -- The federal government on Monday issued a revised moratorium on deep-water offshore drilling, imposed on the heels of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in [...]

Needing a break from the omnipresent BP oil cam, I went back and watched the spirit-resuscitating''Apollo 13.''Oh, to revel in the days when we could fix anything with duct tape [...]

Byline: HENRY PETROSKI SCIENCE AND SILVER BULLETS Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history at Duke University The oil spouting from the bottom of the Gulf [...]

The failure of the top-kill technique in the Gulf of Mexico represents an interesting turning point on the Obama presidency. It symbolizes the end of the period of lightning advance [...]

President Obama's news conference on Thursday was partly a political exercise aimed at showing that his administration is on top of the unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But [...]

Byline: Alan Levin The company that owns the offshore well spewing crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico and other major oil companies spearheaded a campaign to thwart a government [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY AND GRANT ROBERTSON GULF OF MEXICO SPILL OTTAWA and TORONTO -- The Canadian subsidiary of an American petroleum giant is preparing to drill one of the deepest [...]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a national database that rates sections of the nation's coastline from most fragile to most resilient. The idea is to help local governments [...]

Byline: DON WHITELEY; Special to The Globe and Mail VANCOUVER -- The potential for large increases in exports of crude oil through the Port of Vancouver has local politicians concerned [...]