Dear EarthTalk: The three-year anniversary of the 2010 BP oil spill just passed. What do green groups think of the progress since in restoring the region? -- Mary Johannson, New York, N.Y. When an ...

Birds were found covered in oil on the Refugio beach. — -- Two days after a ruptured pipeline leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of oil off the California shore, wildlife -- including pelicans -- ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers estimate that some 1 million birds, across 93 species, were killed due to the disaster, when an oil rig operated by BP Exploration & ...

Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that the BP oil leak is much more of an environmental threat than previous spills from tankers, and if so why? -- Nathan Gore, Pawtucket, R.I. A: No one knows for sure how ...

After its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, BP pledged $500 million over a decade to finance independent scientific research on the effects of the disaster. A large portion of that fund soon ...

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar ...

The effects of the chemicals used to contain the BP oil spill worry scientists. July 9, 2012— -- Two years ago this week, the wellhead that ruptured on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico, ...

CRISIS, AND BUSINESSES THREATENED 15 YEARS AGO. THE BP OIL SPILL HAPPENED. IT’S STILL CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. THE OIL GIANT PAYING OUT $65 ...

We’ll be debating the long-term environmental impact of the BP oil spill for years, if not decades. But we can know one thing for sure right now: the spill is exacting psychological harm on the people ...

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