A Florida State University oceanography professor is questioning government estimates that the vast majority of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is already gone from the Gulf or is being rapidly broken down by bacteria.

“I think the imprint of the BP release, the discharge, will be detectable in the Gulf of Mexico for... More

A giant, low-oxygen “dead zone” where no sea life can exist occurs each summer in the Gulf of Mexico. However, the added effects of this year’s Deepwater Horizon oil disaster raise new questions about just how much environmental degradation the Gulf can handle, Bloomberg News reports.

“You start adding these things up,... More