An offshore oil rig accident off Mexico’s coast was initially described as a routine industrial incident. However, conflicting reports, delayed explanations, and unanswered technical questions quickly ...

The Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and resulting oil spill ranks as one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Much has been learned to date about preventing, responding to, and ...

Japan’s latest disaster advisory has revived a chilling term in the seismology world: “megaquake.” The warning followed a powerful offshore shock and raised the prospect of a far larger rupture that ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

It’s back—the federal government’s push to expand offshore oil drilling. As the headline last month in the Long Island newspaper Newsday reported: “Plan for New Oil Drilling Off Fla. and Calif. Coasts ...