For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited ... Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $ ...

US examines blowout preventer in BP oil spill The failure of the underwater blowout preventer that led to the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by the inability of attached ...

Louisiana's coastal agency has set out ... a record amount thanks largely to funding related to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The draft plan, which requires approval from the state ...

For beaches, workers are sent in with shovels and rakes to remove the portion with oil. For marshes ... as this spill proliferates into smaller spills from south-central Louisiana and clear ...

including beaches and marshes. This took a terrible toll on species like seagrass, beach mice and shorebirds. Read on for devastating details. More than 82,000 birds may have been harmed by the spill.