The lack of government transparency accentuates the effects of a natural disaster that has covered over 140 miles of coastline and endangered the livelihood of coastal communities ...

MANILA, Philippines—As the oil spill from three sunken vessels — MT Terranova, MTKR Jason Bradley, and MV Mirola 1 — spreads across a significant portion of Manila Bay, contaminating the waters of ...

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, ...

On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in ...

Finland has delivered a significant package of aid to Ukraine to help respond to oil spills. Source: Embassy of Finland in Kyiv, as reported by European Pravda Details: The embassy noted that Finland ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

Approximately 3 million gallons (10,000 metric tons [tonnes]) of oil or refined petroleum product 1 are spilled into the waters of the United States every year (NRC, 2003). This amount represents the ...

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, ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Transport and Fate." National Research Council. 2005. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11283. surface ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...