Oceanic oil spills are one of the worst events humanity can inflict upon the natural world. Whether it's from an oil rig's mishap or deliberate wartime actions, oil being dumped into the ocean can ...

The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ...

Two alarming reports from National Public Radio and The New York Times this morning suggest that the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is far greater than the official government estimate.

We Can Rule Out Worst-Case Scenarios The Atlantic's Megan McArdle asks, "How bad is it really? ... There's a phase in disasters--often quite long--when people start treating the worst-case scenarios ...

When the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in decades. More than 140,000 gallons (3,300 barrels) of oil ...

One year after the worst oil spill in US history, what's the condition of the environment, the economy and the culture from Louisiana to Florida? What's been done to make sure a similar disaster ...

WASHINGTON — Government scientists wanted to tell Americans early on how bad the BP oil spill could get, but the White House denied their request to make the worst-case models public, a report by the ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill seems to divide people into two categories: those who can’t forget, and those who refuse to remember. In the first camp are Gulf Coast residents and environmentalists ...

A pelican and a Northern gannet were the first two birds plucked by wildlife rescuers from the oily waters near the disaster ...