More sea turtles were killed or injured in the Gulf of Mexico in the months following the BP oil spill than in any similar period during the past two decades, a report released Wednesday found. While ...

State documents show a contractor has recovered dozens of oil-covered and injured animals after the Smitty’s Supply Inc. environmental disaster in Tangipahoa Parish. Several others were found dead on ...

As efforts to clean thousands of gallons of oil from waters near Baltimore’s Harbor East continue, officials are working to rescue turtles and other wildlife from the affected areas. Officials say ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

The discovery of the highly endangered Kemp's ridley turtle has prompted a $380 million restoration plan for 13 miles of ...

April 20 marks the one-year anniversary of the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and oil continues to leak out of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead at an estimated rate of 1,000 to 5,000 ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a new legal claim in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s failure to comply with the Endangered Species Act in assessing harm to ...

As we’ve unfortunately learned many times before, a bunch of oil dumped into bodies of water doesn’t tend to work out well for the birds and other animals that live in the area. We learned it with ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources pulled oil-covered animals from Baltimore's harbor after a fuel spill. Hearst sister station WBAL was there as crews rescued dozens of birds and turtles ...

Maryland wildlife crews say that turtles in the Baltimore harbor were “doing well” Friday after thousands of gallons of fuel overflowed into the water near Harbor East earlier in the week. A Maryland ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers estimate that some 1 million birds, across 93 species, were killed due to the disaster, when an oil rig operated by BP Exploration & ...