Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Louisiana has beaches that’ll make you question everything you thought you knew about the state. Welcome to Grand Isle, where the Gulf of Mexico meets a barrier island so charming it feels like ...

Edward Burtynsky’s Three Gorges Dam Project exposes the environmental ramifications of the controversial Chinese dam, a $180 ...

Poza Rica is an oil town, and among the challenges confronting some residents who fled flooding that has killed 64 people ...

Mexico has deployed thousands of troops and civilian rescue teams to hundreds of communities that have been cut off by ...

Death toll from torrential rains in Mexico rises to 64 as search continues for missing - Helicopters ferry food and water to ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft ...

Not only are some of the world's top oil-and-gas companies pulling away from renewables and embracing fossil fuels even more, but they're also doubling down by making major plays in the crude-rich ...

BP is moving forward with plans to develop an offshore drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5 billion. The new platform will develop the Tiber and Guadalupe fields, which combined are ...

bp has reached a final investment decision on the Tiber-Guadalupe project in the Gulf of Mexico, approving its second new production platform in less than two years in the critical US offshore region ...

British energy giant BP said it would proceed with its Tiber-Guadalupe project in the Gulf of Mexico, its second new platform in the region in less than two years as it doubles down on production in ...