For as long as there has been an oil industry, there have been oil spills. They're caused by a number of factors, from ...

Shell had previously purchased 1.8 million barrels of oil from the company. Major company takes drastic measures after ...

The ocean water closure runs from Talbert Channel outfall at Huntington State Beach to the projection of Grant Street in ...

Local, state and federal agencies are working to control an oil spill near Garden Island Bay in Plaquemines Parish. According ...

Despite sharing a tragic past, two bald eagles at the Berkshire Bird Paradise have shaped history in the northeast.

The research revealed a significant decrease in the concentration of pollutants in beach soil, seabed sediments and near-bottom waters – an average of 50% since the accident ...

Former Daily editor-in-chief Jim Wascher '75 writes about the history of Earth Day at Stanford and argues why activism for ...

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 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

The incident was not the first – nor the last – of the oil spills that have plagued the Marañón River and the people living along its banks. The watercourse, which is a lifeblood of Peru’s ...