The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a blistering June day in Houma, Louisiana, the local offices of BP—now theDeepwater Horizon Incident Command ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild ...

(This is a guest post from Gail the Actuary at The Oil Drum it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License) We have all been reading about the blowout ...

The presidential commission probing the oil spill said Thursday that both BP and Halliburton knew the cement mixture sealing at the Deepwater Horizon well might not hold, but disregarded its flaws.

As far as British oil giant BP is concerned, the catastrophic oil spill that tainted Louisiana’s shores more than a decade ago didn’t take place in the Gulf of Mexico. It took place in the ...

The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than ...