BP Gulf Oil Spill: 5 Years Later

New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout

Mass deaths likely stemmed from the BP spill in 2010, researchers say

Islands and shorelines remain spoiled, waiting for cleanup money

BP's Macondo well disaster was bad but U.S. oil addiction is worse

It's on the beach, in the marshes, on the continental shelf and under the deep sea—and still not all of the oil has been found

The Sundarbans, part of the world's largest mangrove forest and stretching across India and Bangladesh, have been tarnished by a 350,000-liter oil spill. David Biello reports

 

A survey of deep-sea sediment is helping to explain the "missing oil" from the 2010 oil spill

A physicist may have dreamed up a new way to clean up oil spills. David Biello reports

Few funds generated by the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been allocated as yet to return the Gulf of Mexico’s marshes and ecosystems to a healthier state, leading to “random acts of restoration”

For eighty-seven days in 2010, 210 million gallons of oil from wells below the Deepwater Horizon poured into the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers announced recently that as a result, Bottlenose dolphins in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay are suffering from a host of maladies, including lung disease and adrenal problems.

Is there a better way to clean up the next oil spill disaster? David Biello reports

A group of endangered sperm whales live in the vicinity of the oil spill--and now one of them has turned up dead. David Biello reports

As bad as it is, BP's Gulf oil spill dwindles compared with gushers of the past. David Biello reports