Want To Clean Up An Oil Spill? There Are Some Microbes Looking For A Meal A lingering mystery of the Gulf oil spill is where the oil actually went. It seems now that the microbes in the water made ...

5 Years After Worst Oil Spill? Why Did ‘Shocking' Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor? Why Did ‘Shocking' Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor? Is Gulf Oil Spill's Damage Over or Still ...

In 2010, the Deep Water Horizon incident off the Gulf of Mexico saw nearly 400,000 tonnes of oil spill, resulting in the death of thousands of species ranging from plankton to dolphins.

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

T he 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon was the largest accidental oil spill in history. With almost 100 million gallons (379 million liters) of oil combined with dispersants suggested to ...

Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope than any previous spill. Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform ...

Oil rigs pictured in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana (file picture) Clean-up crews and the US Coast Guard are trying to locate the source of an oil spill spotted ...

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles ... Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply did not ...

Only one dead piping plover has been collected, but oil pollution has soiled the imperiled plover's critical habitat on the Chandeleur Islands. Approximately 6,000 sea turtles have likely been harmed ...