Only one dead piping plover has been collected, but oil pollution has soiled the imperiled plover's critical habitat on the Chandeleur Islands. Approximately 6,000 sea turtles have likely been harmed ...
For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings ... nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago. Lawsuit says Trump administration ignored risk of huge spills to endangered ...
The amount of oil ... spill site, told the BBC. The Mauritian marine environment is home to 1,700 species including around 800 types of fish, 17 kinds of marine mammals and two species of turtles ...
Some 36,000 hectares (88,958 acres) of coral reef, mangroves and sea-grass are also at risk from the spill, marine biologists say. Oil can kill corals or impede their growth. It can also poison or ...
After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists were concerned that sea turtles hatching on the Gulf beaches of Alabama and northern Florida would swim out into deadly oil. They launched a ...
According to calculations by the Agency for Environmental Assessment and Control (OEFA), the oil leak has damaged 1,186,966 m2 of the sea ... fish and even turtles. The spill also has the ...