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Nearly 2,000 feet in the air, above where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico, ... A Bird’s-Eye View of the Oil Spill Nearing Land. 4 minute read.

More than three-and-half years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are launching drones and ocean-going sensor arrays ...

Climate & Environment; After Hurricane Ida, Satellites Track Gulf of Mexico Oil Spills NOAA’s analysis of the view from space helps frame recovery and containment methods to address ...

The effects of the BP oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline are being documented as no disaster has been before. And the documentarians are not just researchers and the news media, but many ...

That is what makes the Gulf of Mexico spill so much more insidious than that of the Valdez in Alaska, and potentially much more destructive. The oil leaking from the broken well at the bottom of ...

Click above to view the video after the jump. There’s been a lot of physical and digital ink spilled over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, but the truth of the situation leaves more questions ...

The spill was also detected via satellite imagery by scientists who have spent years studying oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Their satellite images show evidence of potential oil slicks ...

Oil-soaked pelicans. Mutated fish and shrimp. Dead baby dolphins washing up on the shore. A massive dark slick casting an ominous pall on the cerulean Gulf of Mexico. These disturbing images from ...

Port Eads, La. — In 2004, Hurricane Ivan plowed across the Gulf of Mexico and triggered an oil spill that is still leaking. It's the longest continuous oil spill in American history. Captain ...

A 2004 spill happened when Hurricane Ivan toppled a rig in the Gulf of Mexico and underground wells were buried in a mudslide. It took 14 years to contain that leak.