The Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) has sounded the alarm over the 10,000 litres of waste oil spilled at Kibarani in Mombasa. Yesterday, officials from the authority inspected the scene and confirmed ...

New research exposes the lasting consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. After placing microphones at the bottom of the sea, scientists were startled by their findings, per reports by ...

A tri-agency effort between the U.S. Coast Guard, Spectrum OpCo, LLC, and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office helped contain a weeklong oil-and-gas well leak located at the border of a ...

A construction vessel spilled fuel oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa on Thursday, marking the third such incident this year, according to Japan’s coast guard. The ...

Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia's southern ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Manila, Philippines - An environmental crisis is unfolding in the heart of the Philippines as a marine tanker carrying industrial fuel has tragically sunk in the rough seas off Manila Bay. The ...

Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than ...