After temperatures dropped earlier this week in Alabama, the low temperature in Mobile Thursday was 45 degrees. But Roberta ...

In the early morning, at a lab not too far from the Galveston coast, Shannon Ainsworth is collecting hundreds of tiny, ...

BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year has moved off the front pages in most of the nation, though the damage done to the environment and economy of the Gulf region is far from ...

5 Years After Worst Oil Spill? Why Did ‘Shocking' Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor? Why Did ‘Shocking' Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor? Is Gulf Oil Spill's Damage Over or Still ...

The presidential commission probing the oil spill said Thursday that both BP and Halliburton knew the cement mixture sealing at the Deepwater Horizon well might not hold, but disregarded its flaws.

This oil spill could impair marine mammal reproduction in the Gulf for decades, as some orca whales that were exposed to the Exxon Valdez oil spill haven’t been able to reproduce since that spill in ...

It did not perform 72 of them, mostly for a simple reason: at the time, the Deepwater Horizon was operating in the Gulf of Mexico ... authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims ...

“Communities in the Uinta Basin and Gulf Coast will suffer the most from this oil ... oil trains are roaring past the Colorado River, much less if the oil trains overturn and spill oil into the river, ...

The massive 2010 oil spill damaged or killed coral in the Gulf of Mexico. Now some of the $20 billion settlement is helping researchers learn how to help the coral recover. Audio recording is ...

For the last 14 years, that well’s pipes, long buried in mud and debris have been spilling oil into the Gulf every single day. That makes it the longest-running spill in history. Every day for ...