The effects of the chemicals used to contain the BP oil spill worry scientists. July 9, 2012— -- Two years ago this week, the wellhead that ruptured on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico, ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Guided by lessons learned during the response to the 2011 oil spill in the Yellowstone River, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials are attempting to gather baseline data on the effects of ...

As explained in Chapter 1 of this summary, communication with the public about risk and research strategies could strengthen existing and future surveillance and monitoring systems. The workshop ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (507.2 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

NEW ORLEANS — This Sunday, WWL Investigates returns with a powerful new episode looking back at the BP oil spill and the fight over safety regulations that followed. In the third installment of “WWL ...

It flowed into the water below the Harbor East neighborhood, turning it into a wine-dark sea. “It looked like sangria,” one fire official said Thursday. Barely a day after Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

NEW ORLEANS — WWL Louisiana is diving even deeper into the story of the BP oil spill, one of the worst environmental disasters in history, with the second installment of its new investigative series, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...