An offshore pipeline has spilled 126,000 gallons of oil along Southern California's Orange County. The spill closed major surfing beaches, shut down six miles of fisheries, and coated birds in oil ...

In the Gulf of Mexico, an oil spill triggered by a powerful hurricane has been leaking for more than 14 years with no solution in sight. The federal government is stepping in to try and contain it.

Oil spill shutters several water areas at Quarry Trails Metro Park. ... May 11, a park employee noticed the water beneath Quarry Trail's Millikin Falls was black and had a slight rainbow sheen, ...

Rear Adm. Mary Landry, chief of the Coast Guard in the region, said at the outset that most of the oil was burning off, leaving only a moderate rainbow sheen on the water and no sign of a major spill.

Barely a day after Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon spill of red-dyed diesel, though, what largely remained was an occasional rainbow-colored shimmer on the surface of the water, and an acrid, almost ...

Since the disastrous BP spill in 2010, environmentalists have kept watch over Louisiana's coastline. One consortium says there's far more oil leaking into the Gulf than companies are reporting.

A black expanse and rainbow sheen of oil spanning at least 10 miles was ... assistant executive director of Clean Gulf Associates, a nonprofit oil spill cooperative set up by the industry ...

Barely a day after Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon spill of red-dyed diesel, though, what largely remained was an occasional rainbow-colored shimmer on the surface of the water, and an acrid, almost ...

The San Diego spill was also rainbow-colored, and since the Coast Guard actually had eyes on it, it hypothesizes the spill came from light fuel, like diesel – not the thick, black sludgy oil that ...

Knitted sweaters in colors spanning the rainbow have been saving penguins affected by oil spills for some time. Oiled penguins admitted to the wildlife clinic at Phillip Island Nature Parks in ...

On Sunday, May 11, a park employee noticed the water beneath Quarry Trail's Millikin Falls was black and had a slight rainbow sheen, Metro Parks Public Information Officer Jill Snyder said.