Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

Tar balls have been washing ashore on Texas beaches, primarily in Cameron, Nueces and Matagorda counties. Authorities are ...

Seabed-origin oil spills pose distinct challenges in marine pollution management due to their complex transport dynamics and ...

Oil-soaked pelicans struggling to fly came to symbolize the catastrophic impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the inhabitants of the Gulf of Mexico.

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

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

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

The Gulf’s rising importance represents a turnaround from the past two decades, when the region - tarnished by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, spiraling costs and pandemic shutdowns - took a ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University of Stirling research.