The funding for 10 restoration projects is part of cleanup efforts tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. NOAA Fisheries is set to spend more than $210 million on restoration projects in the ...

Every American adult can summon up searing images from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

Cleanup workers try to scoop up all the toxic globs on Pensacola Beach from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill. Now BP is back with a new deep water drilling plan. (Photo via Florida Sea Grant) How ...

From above, five years after the BP well explosion, the Gulf of Mexico looks clean, green and whole again, teeming with life — a testament to the resilience of nature. But there's more than surface ...

Elisa Baldrighi, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Department of Biology. She received her Ph.D. in marine biology and ecology from the Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, in 2013.

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's ...

NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's ...

This photo provided by Tammy Gremillion shows Jennifer Lee Gremillion, a Louisiana resident involved in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with her daughter in 2020. Oil leaks in the Gulf ...