This week marked 16 years since the BP oil spill tragedy, which killed 11 people, spewed 130 million gallons of oil into the ...

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and, five years later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill made it clear to everyone that unless ...

Monday marked 16 years since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Now they face the threat of new drilling and a Mississippi River scheme The danger of deepwater oil operations, combined with the loosening of Obama-era rules, mean the risk of a repeat disaster is ...

Monday marks 16 years since the BP oil spill released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, crippling the Gulf ecosystem ...

Floatable beads made from chitosan and cellulose acetate and enhanced with bentonite have been engineered to effectively ...

WASHINGTON — BP has been front and center in the aftermath of the explosion and oil spill at its rig in the Gulf of Mexico. But given the scope of the ecological disaster in the making on the Gulf ...

The Standing Committee on Oil Spill Research and Recovery will advise the National Academies' Gulf Research Program (GRP) on GRP activities in the event of a Spill of National Significance (SONS) in ...

Cleaning the oil is the easy part,” Girouard said in an interview at a Vancouver conference on spill prevention and response.