BP buys up spill-related search terms to direct people to its Web site.

The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico finally has a face.

The Coast Guard warned that even if the flow of oil was capped by summer, it could take until autumn to deal with the damage spreading across the gulf.

As nations struggle to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, the European Union is taking on a potentially more complicated environmental challenge: Preserving the world's biodiversity.

Some wildlife experts conservation experts wonder whether cleaning the oil-soaked pelicans will work in the long run.

A long list of shortcuts and lapses preceded the deadly rig explosion and epic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The increase indicated engineers are making some progress in stanching the flow, Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard said.

Could partial success in trapping the gushing oil lessen concern about the reality that such deep blowouts appear largely unstoppable?

BP should be required to contribute a barrel of oil to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve for every one salvaged from its gushing well.

A hodgepodge of oversight agencies granted exceptions to rules and allowed risks to accumulate on the Deepwater Horizon rig.

The oil spill has reinforced fears about what may happen when the world’s petroleum supply runs out.

If past catastrophes are guides, the cleanup by BP workers will capture only a fraction of the spilled crude.

The cap is capturing oil, officials say. But there is concern that problems could develop if it is fully deployed too quickly.

New Orleans held a festival that was initially planned for 2006, but postponed because the city was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina.

A deep-diving filmmaker explains his efforts to help resolve the gulf oil crisis.

President Obama said in his weekly radio address that the government was working to contain and clean the oil spill, and spoke about workers he had met in Louisiana on Friday.

Louisiana’s brown pelicans were taken off the endangered species list last year. Experts said the oil spill could change that.

Visiting the Gulf Coast, President Obama chastised BP for paying billions in dividends while some people whose livelihoods were wrecked by the oil spill were having difficulty getting their claims paid.

Mr. Stein led the federal government’s fight against water pollution for more than 20 years.

A federal judge, in two rulings regarding pumping Sacramento River delta water to California's central valley, insists that environmental analyses are invalid unless they take humans into account.