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 ...

Using microphones submerged 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have learned that whale and dolphin populations were still declining 10 years after the Deepwater Horizon ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oil spill an "ecological disaster." The Kerch Strait is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the inland Sea of Azov to the ...

The oil spill was described as "the worst environmental man-made disaster" to ever occur in the Pacific nation. More than half a decade later, locals are fighting for justice. Today, a legal team ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...

Advertising Russian officials originally claimed that the spill was contained, but soon after the disaster, sightings of floating oil and tarred birds were reported all along Russia’s Black Sea ...