News Stories relating to "oil spill"

Seafood from the Gulf is OK - Did the BP oil spill contaminate Gulf Coast seafood? After receiving a shipment of Louisiana seafood samples collected by a reporter with "Good Morning America," Texas researchers found NO evidence of petroleum hydrocarbons.

UPDATE: Worst bird colony devestation found - When it comes to the oil spill, we think we know what's happening to the birds, but since they can't tell us, we need to figure it out for ourselves.

As oil washes ashore along the Gulf Coast, ornithologists are asking bird watchers to keep an eye on nesting birds--not just...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not simply a random accident. Is it a conspiracy? There will be more of these spills to in the future, because the days of easy oil are over.

Anthropologist Bret Gustafson says, "BP and other oil companies have tried to portray this spill as an accident or an aberration, but in...

The BP oil spill may be leading to an almost unimaginable disaster--an extinction event that could kill off a large swathe of marine life.

Methane gas can deplete oxygen in the water, leading to the kind of oxygen depletion that can create a fish-killing dead zone. While methane occurs naturally in ocean water, high concentrations of it...

There may be ominous news in our future, because there is increasing evidence that something even more frightening than the oil spill is happening on the ocean floor of the Gulf of Mexico. We know that there's a danger of marine life extinction, but could the oil spill lead to OUR extinction as well?

Documentary filmmaker James Fox went to the Gulf of Mexicoto chronicle the historic oil spill taking place there. Heexpected to see a massive cleanup effort, but was shocked todiscover that what appears to be taking place is more of acoverup than a clean-up. To listen,click here.(Due to heavy traffic, there may be a delay).

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Bacteria & information lockdown? - Bacteria are the only hope for cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP needs to let billions of hydrocarbon-chewing microbes loose in the gulf that that's probably what they plan to do: their reason for using over 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersants on the oil slick both...