Over on the main page, TIME’s Michael Grunwald has a contrarian take on the Gulf oil spill. Far from being the greatest environmental catastrophe in American history—as everyone from President Obama ...

A large spill in the Bille and Ogale communities of the Niger Delta is currently the subject of a class action filed by law firm Leigh Day in the English High Courts. The explosive documents were ...

Venezuela says an oil spill that originated in Trinidad and Tobago, two islands just off its coast, had caused serious environmental damage along the coastlines of at least two Venezuelan states and ...

Such harm could come in a number of ways. A strike on Kharg island has the clearest potential to cause a big, enormously ...

For the first time, federal scientists have found damage to deep-sea coral and other marine life on the ocean floor several miles from the blown-out BP well - a strong indication that damage from the ...

Crews on the water and on shore worked feverishly Sunday to limit environmental damage from one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, due to a suspected leak in an underwater ...

A mysterious attack on an Iranian oil refinery during the Iran war caused an oil spill that affected a nearby Persian Gulf island that’s a protected breeding ground for wildlife, videos and satellite ...

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