The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused a massive oil spill.

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill ...

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Deepwater Horizon tells the real story of the people who survived the 2010 oil rig explosion. The 2016 biographical disaster movie stars Mark Wahlberg as the real-life oil rig technician Mike Williams ...

Major funding boost: Over $1.43 million awarded to 15 collaborations in three Gulf Coast cities to plan science-based, community-led disaster adaptation projects. Cross-sector approach: Initiative ...

In our countdown of the year’s top food safety stories, number 3 was the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on the area’s seafood industry: The The Gulf seafood story, which began ...

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