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, ...

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 ...

This summer UA environmental anthropologist Diane Austin observed the Gulf community’s utter exhaustion from the oil spill, and now she is heading back to research the spill’s long-term effects.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. The tanker struck a reef on March 24, 1989, and unleashed ...

Recent oil spills in our area should be ringing alarm bells for every local resident and at every level of government.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — 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 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 ...

A pipeline rupture that sent crude oil into the air and onto the ground caused concern for those who live nearby. The rupture happened near NW 178th and Portland, next to a new housing addition called ...

If you heard that statement once last summer, you heard it a thousand times as BP's runaway well pumped 200 million gallons of poison into the richest fishery in the lower 48 states. It was always ...

CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have only begun to understand the impact of the BP Plc oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a top U.S. fisheries official said on Thursday. Sign up ...

The oil spill debacle in the Gulf of Mexico has, perhaps predictably, spawned a good number of activist art installations and projects along the Gulf Coast. Now reactions to the spill have begun to ...