Oil and Birds Don't Mix
When oil spills, birds suffer. Years after the worst marine spill in U.S. history, that's still painfully clear.
When oil spills, birds suffer. Years after the worst marine spill in U.S. history, that's still painfully clear.
Crude oil washes ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama. Photo: Dave Martin/AP
Five years after the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the author of The Tarball Chronicles grabs his binoculars and returns to the scene of the slime.
An oiled Brown Pelican rests after being cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, during the 2010 BP spill. Photo: Joel Sartore
Research calculates the cost of the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history.
Island restoration is an investment in coastal Louisiana’s future. Here’s how it works.
In a strange twist of fate, the biggest oil spill in U.S. history may end up saving the South’s wetlands and coastlines—if we make the right choices.
Thousands of mile of oil and gas canals have altered fragile Gulf marshes and allowed saltwater to penetrate coastal wetlands. A football field-size chunk of wetlands vanishes into open water almost every hour. Photo: Michel Varisco
Dish detergent is the key ingredient, but the process takes more than suds.
The award-winning film The Great Invisible airs on PBS for the fifth anniversary of the largest spill in U.S. history.
The oil is trapped in sediment, but may trickle up the food chain.
Five years after the BP oil spill, funds from the disaster will finally help restore Cat Island.
A BP-authored report claiming that the Gulf has recovered is inaccurate and insulting—here’s why.
The oil company is arguing that dropping oil prices will make it difficult for them to pay their impending fine.
Seabirds rely on fish as their primary food source, but they often can’t find enough to eat.
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