A worker’s boot at nearly 2 kilometers deep. From the darkness emerges a boot. An old leather, steel-toed, work boot. It shouldn’t be there resting on the seafloor nearly two kilometers deep. I’m ...

Hudson portrays the real-life wife of one of the oil rig explosion's survivors. — -- Kate Hudson said she felt the added pressure in “Deepwater Horizon” of playing the real-life wife of one of ...

Louisiana officials have been using funds from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement to protect coastal areas but ...

When I went to see the movie “Deepwater Horizon” with some of my graduate students last week, I did not expect accuracy. Drilling for oil and gas is not typically viewed favorably or depicted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The explosion of the enormous floating rig Deepwater Horizon and the ensuing oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico is well known as the worst environmental ...

But, unlike many films based on true events, Deepwater Horizon actually stays remarkably close to real life. The film chronicles the last moments on the drilling rig for which the movie is named in ...

Sunlight shapes oil spills’ long-term legacies. In the days and weeks after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, sunlight hit the oil slicks on the surface of the water. That ...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster released approximately 4 million barrels of oil from the Macondo Wellhead over the course of 87 days in 2010. Thus, becoming the largest accidental marine oil spill in ...

GALVESTON — Shortly before 10 p.m. on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was working 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana when a sudden burst of natural gas — one executive would later ...