Deepwater horizon oil spill

The public's focus eventually turned away from the 2010 disaster. Scientists, however, are still learning the scale of the devastation.

Scientists believe it will be decades before the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, damaged across almost 60-square-miles, recovers from the 2010 BP oil spill, according to a recently published study.

Deepwater Horizon, known around the globe as the “BP oil spill”; this massive tragedy happened in the Gulf of Mexico back in April 2010 taking the lives of 11 people and leaving 17 others injured. Sent an oil slick across our beautiful Gulf of Mexico with oil washing up on our beaches.

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Researchers have found carbon from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the feathers and digestive tracts of seaside sparrows, proving for the first time that oil

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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history. The disaster was caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, taking 11 lives and releasing nearly 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Twelve years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, scientists are still working to understand where all this oil ended up, a concept known as environmental fate.

Boats gather near remaining oil platforms near the site of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, leaving oily wakes as they move through the polluted water. Nearly one third of all U.S. oil production comes from 3,500 such platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

On April 20, an explosion at a British Petroleum (BP) exploratory drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and initiated what could be the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history.

Almost four years after a rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing untold amounts of crude oil into the water's fragile ecosystem, new images are redefining the devastation.