An oil spill that has been leaking millions of barrels since the last 14 years into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it was now poised to becoming one of the worst offshore ...

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

A government-funded survey of the entire Gulf of Mexico last summer found more sick fish in the area of the 2010 oil spill than anywhere else, according to the top University of South ...

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 ...