Mussels And Sponges In The Gulf Of Mexico Are Flourishing On A Diet Of Oil And Gas Far below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, a rich and biodiverse community flourishes on the oil and gas seeps that flow from what are known as asphalt v

New Seafloor Map Reveals How Strange the Gulf of Mexico Is The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most geologically interesting stretches of the Earth's surface. The gulf's peculiar history gave rise to a landscape riddled with domes, pockmarks, canyons, faults, and channels - all revealed in more det Read more ... ail than ever before by a new 1.4 billion-pixel ma...

Oil giant BP estimates cost of 2010 Gulf oil spill at $61.6 billion BP PLC has put a final price tag on what its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost the company.

Brief Walk In Gulf Of Mexico Leaves Man With Horrific Injury A Fort Myers, Florida, man recently lost one of his legs after a harrowing encounter with flesh-eating bacteria. When Zach Mody stepped into the Gulf of Mexico ...

5 years after BP spill, little has changed to protect Gulf of Mexico Another oil rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico early this month. Orange flames shot high into the night sky; the local news reported that multiple workers were missing; and residents of the beleaguered Gulf Coast waited for the other shoe to drop.

Five Years After BP Spill, Questions Linger in the Gulf Half a decade after a BP oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico and its wildlife, some still are struggling.

Secrecy shrouds decade-old oil spill in Gulf of Mexico OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — A blanket of fog lifts, exposing a band of rainbow sheen that stretches for miles off the coast of Louisiana. From the vantage point of an airplane, it's easy to see gas bubbles in the slick that mark the spot where a Read more ... n oil platform toppled during a 2004 hurricane, triggering what might be the longest-running commercial oil spill ever to pollute the Gulf of Mexico.

Is Gulf Oil Spill's Damage Over or Still Unfolding? Editor's Note: This is the first of four stories marking the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil Rig Explosion in Gulf of Mexico