Environmental news
23/06/2025Why Did ‘Shocking’ Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor?
A newly discovered process that makes oil drop like stones may inspire better cleanup strategies, experts say. In April 2010, as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history stained beaches and plastered birds with thick goo, something totally unexpected was happening under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (map). Out of the public eye, a mass of […]
Environmental news
12/04/2018Oil Spill Kills More Than 2,400 Animals
An unclear amount of oil has leaked into Colombia’s waterways, and environmental activists are saying an oil company is to blame. At the beginning of March, an oil well in northern Colombia burst, spewing an unclear amount of oil into the Magdalena River, a principal waterway that flows about 950 miles northward through the western half of the […]
