However, none compares to the world's largest oil spill caused by the US in the Gulf of Mexico, the likes of which are still having wildlife impacts today. When it comes to natural disasters, no ...

The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone is the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Before the size of the Arabian Sea's low oxygen was confirmed, Europe had what was considered the world's largest dead zone.

The Gulf’s dead zone is considered the world’s largest, but it isn’t the only area with a dead zone. There’s one in the Chesapeake Bay and another in the Baltic Sea.

World World’s largest dead zone in Gulf of Oman is the size of Florida. By. Karen Graham. Published. May 6, 2018. Just as oxygen is essential to all plant and animal life on land, it is ...

Florida researchers have discovered the world’s largest sargassum forest in the Atlantic Ocean, a sweeping bloom of macroalgae gorging on natural and manmade nutrients that has waged a ...

The answer: the $61.6 billion cost to BP of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, BP issued its final estimate of the cost of the spill, the largest in U.S. history.

The largest reported aggregation in the Gulf occurred in 2009, when aerial surveys counted approximately 420 whale sharks north of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Where did the aggregations go?

In 1973, the Arab Oil Crisis made Americans care about energy security. Forty years later, a survey of the world's five largest offshore fields by estimated recoverable reserves is a stark ...

Whale sharks, the largest species of fish in the world, have been known to congregate in the area where the Mississippi River drains into the Gulf of Mexico.Now for the first time, researchers ...