Mikeal Berthelot, Jr., was navigating the mouth of the Mississippi River in his shrimp boat, a stretch of water he’d traversed many times before. The water was calm. The sun beat down. His deckhand ...

Researchers at Iowa State University have discovered a unique and environmentally friendly solution of utilizing crop waste to seal abandoned oil wells and capture carbon by permanently sequestering ...

A Times-Picayune analysis found that more than 3,600 oil wells drilled on land or in marsh are now in open water. To do so, the newspaper used the U.S. Geological Survey’s historical shoreline maps.

Gulf War disaster in 1991 showed how conflict can trigger environmental damage that spreads far beyond the battlefield.

Montana’s first oil well was drilled in what is now Glacier National Park near the head of Kintla Lake back in 1901. One hundred and twenty-five years later, Glacier will have the well plugged.