Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Commercial fishermen in the Gulf are still grappling with the effects of the BP oil spill, 15 years later. Photo courtesy of ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

One morning in early April 2024, Elías Naal Hernández set out with his fishing net to try his luck in the waters of Isla ...

April 20 marks the 15th anniversary marks the 15th anniversary of the worst spill of its kind on record. Louisiana marshes were heavily impacted.

The BP Deepwater Horizon spill forced massive job losses and damage to ecosystems and wildlife and nearly put a Gulf boat ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster ultimately led to the largest environmental settlement in U.S. history. While BP was deemed ...

An investigation by The Associated Press previously found all but a handful of roughly 4,800 lawsuits seeking compensation for health problems linked to the oil spill have been dismissed and only ...

arsenic and cadmium levels were detected in the urine of people consuming fish from the river or whose vegetable gardens were close to oil spill sites. Canaquiri Murayari’s association was ...