Agents of Behemoth

An oil spill on the first day of Louisiana’s inshore shrimp season has taken a toll on some fishermen. Here's what happened.

Across Caribbean coasts, sargassum is covering the beaches. This smelly seaweed kills fish and other marine life and impacts local economies.

The United Nations warned Monday that it would cost $20 billion to clean up an oil spill in the event of the "imminent" break-up of an oil tanker abandoned off Yemen.

A massive oil spill off the coast of Peru has been devastating for local fishermen.

Residents take to the streets to demand action after the latest spill affecting fishing communities in southern Nigeria.

The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate.

In 2004, Hurricane Ivan brought down a massive oil platform operated by Taylor Energy, in the Gulf of Mexico. For years, oil has been seeping into the Gulf. Jon Wertheim reports on the efforts of a Coast Guard captain and a Cajun engineer to find a solution.

Three Orange County congressional representatives will lead the hearing on the Huntington Beach oil spill next week.

South African government on Sunday said the sea pollution linked to a spill from a chemical plant attacked during riots in July had caused a serious environmental catastrophe.

Some parts of the world have passed ecological tipping points. In other parts the danger of that happening may come sooner than expected.

Cuba’s main fuel storage facility caught fire and was 40% destroyed over five days, causing rolling blackouts and toxic smoke to spread.

Nearly 1,700 seafarers and inhabitants of Mauritius who have been adversely impacted by the Wakaship oil spill will file a lawsuit against Okiyo Maritime Corp. 

The coral of the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing “widespread” bleaching just two years after the reef’s last mass bleaching event in 2020.

Radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant spiked above control levels, Ukraine warned the day after Russian forces captured the infamous plant during the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The fact these chemicals are contaminating Maine’s deer meat in the Fairfield area is an eye-opening reminder of just how extensive this problem is.

The Quang Tri environment department has warned of an oil spill risk from a Hong Kong vessel anchored around eight kilometres from a local port.

Prosecutors blame the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company and its officials for 'one of the biggest incidents of ecological damage the country has ever seen'...

The amount of crude oil spilled in an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California is believed to be close to 25,000 gallons, or only about one-fifth of what officials initially feared, a Coast Guard official said Thursday.