The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds. We thought we’d prevented another one.

Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion killed 11 workers and left the Macondo well leaking deep under the Gulf of Mexico. BP tried to stop it with deep-sea robots, a ...

After the Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers in April 2010, BP faced a nightmare 1,500 meters below the Gulf of Mexico: a damaged blowout preventer, a buckled drill pipe, and oil pouring ...

On 20 April, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing an oil spill that soon became the worst environmental disaster in US history. Here is a ...