By Melissa Gaskill of Nature News. In April 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank. With the pipe that had once channeled oil 1,400 meters up from the ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is the most catastrophic oil spill in US history. The damage it did to the environment and coastal economies lasted for years. The Verge looks ...

When oil sheen appeared on the sea surface last fall not far from the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, authorities wanted to know where it was coming from.

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

FILE – A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip on April 2010.

GULF OF MEXICO - JULY 03: Support ships are seen near where efforts continue to recover oil and cap the Deepwater Horizon spill site on July 3, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of ...

The Gulf of Mexico produces about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day, compared with about 9.2 million bpd for inland shale basins. Total gas production accounts for about 15% of the national total.

FILE – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010, following an explosion that killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s ...

Cleanup workers who became ill after Deepwater Horizon oil spill are suing BP for compensation. About 4 million barrels of crude oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico and 11 people died in the April ...

NOAA Fisheries is set to spend more than $210 million on restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico to continue cleanup of the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon platform explosion that cost 11 lives and the spill of millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico in what is the largest environmental disaster in the history ...