oil spill

Microdroplets of water in a natural asphalt lake are home to active microbial life, a study shows.

Latest analysis of microbial activities in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that gas-rich deepwater plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout may have overwhelmed methane-oxidizing bacterial species.

The oil company tells a US court that it is not solely responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Scientists have identified the sticky substance that is damaging the feathers of hundreds seabirds washed ashore in England as an additive for lubricant oils.
 

Satellite images reveal that small oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico are often larger than reported.

Louisiana’s salt marshes are recovering from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but some areas have been irreversibly lost.

The beaches around the Gulf of Mexico harbor different nematodes, protists and fungi now than they did before the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010.

Researchers who studied the Deep Water Horizon disaster have handed over 3,000 internal documents and emails to BP as part of the lawsuit that seeks damages from the oil company.

A marine scientist ponders how academics could have handled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill better.

Even highly diluted crude oil can impact fish in the marshes bordering the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Millions are pumped into research on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and high-profile arrests are made amid demonstrations fighting the construction of a new pipeline.