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A major oil spill threatens hundreds of Indigenous communities who live along the Coca River that leads into Ecuador's Amazon.
Environment
‘We want justice’: Indigenous communities in peril after major oil spill in Ecuador’s Amazon 
A long, narrow boat leaks black oil into the Indian Ocean off coast of Mauritius blue waters
Environment
Mauritius rushes to stave off oil spill
People stand on the sand of a beach. Below them, the sand is covered in a dark, black substance.
Scientists rush to rescue sea turtles threatened by mysterious Brazil oil spill
Arts, Culture & Media
Don’t Forget Us: Photographing the Oil Spill
Smoke and fire is seen from the oil tanker Sanchi after it collided with a Chinese freight ship in the East China Sea, Jan. 7, 2018.
Environment
Explosion risk for oil tanker ablaze off China’s east coast
Oil spill.
Arts
The Gulf shows some small signs of recovery, seven years after Deepwater Horizon
A work boat passes an oiled marshland one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Bay Jimmy near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana.
Environment
Five years later, the Gulf of Mexico is still recovering from Deepwater Horizon
Xavante indigenous activist Hiparidi Toptiro has been fighting to keep his tribe's protected forests, in Mato Grosso state, safe from farmers looking to expand their soy fields. Toptiro has bullet scars testifying to the dangers of activism in Brazil.
Environment
Activists in Brazil are fighting to protect the environment — and their lives
Drilling unit aground
Environment
A new report finds nations are woefully unprepared for Arctic oil spills
Conflict & Justice
New Orleans judge will rule on hundreds of BP lawsuits
Oil in Louisiana coastal marshes
Environment
The full extent of the BP Gulf oil spill is still unfolding before our eyes
Environment
Did the oil spill cause less damage than expected?
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Environment
Oil-chewing bacteria may be the future for quickly cleaning toxic oil spills
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Environment
Oil-chewing bacteria may be the future for quickly cleaning toxic oil spills
Picture taken from a Sûreté du Québec helicopter of Lac-Mégantic, the day of the derailment
Environment
Oil production in North America is booming. And the spills are multiplying
Environment
Oil cleanup jobs help Gulf for now, but what comes later?
Environment
Oil spill: a farewell to the Gulf coast’s lifestyle?
Environment
Can wildlife survive the oil spill?
Global Politics
EPA orders less toxic chemical dispersants in oil spill cleanup
Environment
So many oil spill cleanup ideas, so little time
Environment
Industry and the environment prepare for oil spill’s long clean-up
Environment
Grieving residents of Lac-Mégantic prepare for the return of trains rolling through town once again
Environment
How $20 billion in BP fines can go to restoring the Gulf
Environment
America can’t stop wasting food
An intimate tour of the threatened Gulf Coast
Deepwater Disaster Three Years On
Conflict & Justice
Report Alleges BP Hid Health Impact of Gulf Oil Dispersant
The Cleanup, the Media and ExxonMobil
Research Update on the Impact of BP Oil Spill
Oil Spills in Nigeria
Oil Dispersants and the Ecology of the Gulf
Former BP Engineer Arrested in Connection with Gulf of Mexico Spill
Revisiting the Gulf Deepwater Disaster
Top of the Hour: BP Sues Halliburton Over Gulf Oil Spill, Morning Headlines
Adroitly Adrift
Global Politics
Nigeria Oil Spill Needs Big Clean-up Action
Toxic Tide: Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster
Top of the Hour: Compensation for the Oil Spill, Morning Headlines
Environment
Southern Writer Rick Bragg on Gulf Spill a Year Later
Environment
Voices from the Gulf: Dean Blanchard, Seafood Distributor
Environment
Gulf Fishing Communities a Year Later
A Deadly Spill For Cetaceans?
Natives and the Oil Spill
North Slope Slide
Supertanker Saftey Today
The Living on Earth Almanac
Old Oil Still Haunts: Exxon Valdez Revisited
Rhode Island Oil Spill
The Gulf War: Five Years After
Listener Comments
The Trouble with Tankers
Oil Spills: One Woman’s Story
Prognosis: Oil Spills Inevitable
A Valdez Oil Spill in Ecuador’s Jungle
Native Alaskans & Offshore Drilling
Mixed Reactions to Oil Spill Commission Report
Spill Could Pick up Restoration Bill
NOAA Signed Off on Gulf Drilling Plans
Dispersant Discussion
Let the Oil Slinging Begin