Nearly every area of Alaska’s oceans are proposed for drilling. Oil spills there would threaten polar bears, walrus and bowhead and beluga whales, along with coastal communities dependent on healthy ...

Devastating Hurricane Melissa wasn’t the only alarming event that disrupted cruises this week. Not long after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Oct. 28, an oil spill occurred at ...

For many, the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. For those of us who struggle with finding the perfect gifts, ...

More than 50 years since the oil spill near Santa Barbara, a look back at one of the worst ecological disasters in the ...

An elegant beaded necklace for mom? A cool denim shirt for your ‘Yellowstone’-loving brother? Pink ‘chandelier’ earrings for ...

Mark & Graham has some of the best gifts when it comes to tech and travel organizers that you can personalize with your ...

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden showcases California native plants in a 78-acre living museum, with trails winding through redwood groves, meadows of wildflowers, and desert-like sections displaying ...

On any given day, El’s serves as a cross-section of Morehead City life – commercial fishermen still in their work clothes, office workers on lunch breaks, families with kids in tow, tourists who got ...

An above-ground storage tank operated by Carbon California released approximately 420 gallons of crude oil into a tributary ...

A unified command included the state's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the ...

As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura County after about 420 gallons leaked into a remote creek, officials ...

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