David Hammer’s second episode explores the lasting environmental and economic damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster ...

In Nigeria, tankers carrying petroleum products are a common sight on the na­tion’s highways. These massive vehi­cles, often loaded with flammable and hazardous liquids, are an integral part of the ...

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...

The memory of that catastrophe 15 years ago this week — and its lingering associations with death, contamination and fear — ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. --15 years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.The BP-owned rig ...

Initially, BP knowingly obscured the scale of damage and possible pathways to rescue ... Support ships are seen near where ...

The result was a major oil spill, with thousands of tons of crude leaking into the sea. Russia’s environmental agency, Rosprirodnadzor, estimated the damage at nearly US$1 billion. The agency ...