It was two years ago today that the Deepwater Horizon—a top-of-the-line offshore drilling rig owned by BP and run by Transocean—experienced a sudden burst of gas from a three-mile long well its crew ...

A week from today will mark the one-year anniversary of the oil rig explosion of Deepwater Horizon that triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. For three months, rust-colored sludge gushed ...

Over on the main page, TIME’s Michael Grunwald has a contrarian take on the Gulf oil spill. Far from being the greatest environmental catastrophe in American history—as everyone from President Obama ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American For the second time in under a year, a ...

BP's shoddy risk assessment and poor communication played a major role in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and deaths of 11 rig workers last April, a presidential commission says in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster ...

Albert "Rusty" Gaude is a Fisheries Agent with LSU's Agricultural Center. On April 20, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico causing oil to spill into the waters. The spill is moving West but has ...

While New Orleans is still reeling from Hurricane Katrina, this latest Gulf Coast oil spill is not helping matters much. Local fisheries and fishermen are preparing to be shut down by the encroaching ...

Young children share their fears of the oil spill with ABC's Chris Cuomo. June 4, 2010 -- The oil spill is a growing disaster for the nation, but for the youngest citizens of the Gulf, it has become a ...

In the wake of the Gulf spill, the United States should craft regional pacts with its neighbors to address pollution and liability issues arising from ever deeper oil and gas exploration, says expert ...

Determined to project both command and compassion, President Barack Obama is returning to the Louisiana coast for a fresh reality check on work to stanch the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and ...

Report warns of systemic industry problems, and similar blowout is possible. Jan. 5, 2011— -- The National Oil Spill Commission released the scathing first chapter of its forthcoming full report ...