Tag: oil spill

When the Enbridge pipeline burst into a Michigan creek in 2010, Josh Otten was ready to help with the cleanup, especially since he knew wildlife was being affected. “I was...

Cleanup is nearing completion after an oil spill off the coast of Southern California. An undersea pipeline leaked about 25,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean in early October....

Louisiana wildlife officials have documented a growing numbers of oil-soaked birds in the wake of a refinery that spilled crude oil after being flooded during Hurricane Ida. The Associated Press...

Dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay continue to experience the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Researchers found lingering health differences in the bay’s bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) population...

Cleaning gulls covered in crude oil from spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster helps the seabirds recover, and the benefits of rehabilitation outweigh the costs. Ongoing research featured this week...

Funds from a legal settlement following a 2003 oil spill are helping reestablish common loons (Gavia immer) in New England. Federal and state agencies are spending $8 million to release...

It’s been a decade since Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster, which killed 11 workers and injured 17 others, released an estimated 168 million...

Cleanup funds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are rebuilding a pelican rookery on a barrier island off the Louisiana coast. Queen Bess Island supports the state’s third-largest brown...

Pollution remains embedded deep in the Alaskan coastal ecosystem of Prince William Sound some 30 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on a reef and emptied 10.8 million...

After devastating oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the impact on birds is easy to see when they lay dead on the ground...