BP oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to natural resources, scientists find
The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six-year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in US history. This is the first comprehensive appraisal of the financial value of the natural resources damaged by the 134-million-gallon spill.
Trillions of Plastic Bits, Swept Up by Current, Are Littering Arctic Waters
Pollution is now as dense in the northernmost ocean as it is in the Atlantic and Pacific..