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 ...

April 20 marked the 15th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, an oil spill that claimed the lives of 11 people and spewed 135 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. That's equivalent to 4 ...

BALTIMORE — 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.

* Relocation project called unprecedented in scope * Wildlife officials target 700 to 800 turtle nests * Eggs to be trucked hundreds of miles to Atlantic Coast By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, June 28 ...

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 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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. wildlife experts are preparing to collect tens of thousands of endangered sea turtle eggs and move them hundreds of miles away in an unprecedented bid to protect them from ...