It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies. Wes Tunnell remembers it well. The tall, 65-year-old coral reef ...

First Peer-Reviewed Numbers on BP Oil Spill Disaster Released The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals how many millions of barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that will affect wildlife in the oceans and on the shores for a long time. But can microorganisms come to the rescue? bacteria constitute a ...

BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year has moved off the front pages in most of the nation, though the damage done to the environment and economy of the Gulf region is far from ...