By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...

The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a spill. Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth’s surface to drill oil and construct wells) in the Gulf of ...