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Microbes ate BP oil spill? Maybe, but the problem’s not over

Recent studies at Berkeley have led researcher Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to state that the deep oil plume has been eaten by microbes. Others don’t agree. There’s not even agreement about how much oil was recovered.

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Johnny the Turtle Checks Out of Rehab

Johnny the turtle has checked out of rehab and checked back into his natural environment, three years after losing his way from the Gulf of Mexico and ending up washed ashore in the Netherlands. The endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was released into the ocean...

AUDIO: BP 'could face criminal case'

With less than two months to go to the start of a huge civil law action in the United States over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP lawyers are trying to reach a settlement out of court. Roger Harrabin, the BBC's environment analyst, has the latest.

US and Mexico sign Gulf oil deal

The US and Mexico agree to work together to develop oil and gas fields that straddle their maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP Gulf spill settlement 'close'

A partial settlement of claims made against BP for the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is very close, sources tell the BBC.

Cessna with unresponsive pilot crashes into Gulf

A twin-engine Cessna 421 private aircraft that was circling over the Gulf of Mexico with an unresponsive pilot has crashed into the ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard says.