CHICAGO (Reuters) - Doctors in the Gulf Coast region need to be alert to both the short and long-term health effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, U.S. health experts said on Monday. Prior oil ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - 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. The 987-foot ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spread roughly 373 miles across open water and fouled about 125 miles of Mexican ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Sunday marks 15 years since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, when a massive explosion on a BP-operated oil rig claimed 11 lives and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. Now, ...

COCODRIE, La. (WVUE) - Seafood industry business owners and workers in Terrebonne Parish say they are anxious about the effects of a recent oil leak. Oil leaked from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

Multiple effects of oil and its components in fish / Christopher J. Kennedy -- Toxicological and physiological effects of the surfactant dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate at varying salinities during ...

Massive flooding in the capital region and an oil spill disaster have wrought havoc in the Philippines, as officials underscored the debilitating effect of climate change and the need for sustained ...