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The Gannet spill comes at a crucial time for Shell as the company tries to convince a sceptical public that it can be trusted with oil extraction in the Arctic, writes David Ritter from London.

It seems that the idea of what MPAs are meant to protect the marine environment from has reversed since the declaration of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, writes Crikey natulralist Lionel Eelmore.

Alarming numbers of bottleknecked dolphins are dying in the Gulf of Mexico this season, with a large percentage just babies. Is it due to the infamous BP spill from last year? Scientists aren’t ruling it out.

A recently released US federal report claims oil spilled from BP’s Gulf of Mexico well has seeped into sediment deep into the Gulf, where it is impossible to be removed and may harm marine life, writes Jeffrey Ball.

Five months after the traumatic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a permanent cement plug has finally stopped the leak, with the federal bureau declaring the well “dead”.

As the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico worsened, the popularity of Twitter spoof profile @BPGlobalPR — an inept and amusing PR firm attempting to quell public outrage — grew exponentially. The Awl interviews the man behind the witty one-liners.

BP continues its clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico while scientists bicker about the nature and extent of the spill, its effect on the environment and the best ways to prevent future disasters.

The White House and BP originally estimated the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to be at around 5000 barrels of oil a day. New official estimates now place that number at around 53,000 a day, officially making it the worst accidental oil spill in history, says Dan Froomkin.

This talk that the oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has “disappeared” is absolute bull, says Mac McClelland. BP is white-washing this story and the media are falling for it like fools.

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a terrible tragedy, but it wasn’t the worst environmental disaster of all time and it’s been blown completely out of proportion, says Michael Grunwald.

Beleaguered BP CEO Tony Hayward has ended speculation about the fate of his job and resigned, claiming his involvement in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was like “being hit by a bus.”

It appears that BP is not only dodgy at capping leaks, but also dodgy at doctoring photographs. One blogger noticed that the oil giant altered a photograph of its command center. Dadly, too.

The Obama administration has come under fire for its response to BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But what would the Republicans have done differently, and would they have achieved a better result?

BP may have halted the oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico but the hidden damage to the region’s ecosystems could be around for decades, writes Justin Gillis and Leslie Kaufman.

Nearly three months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP have finally plugged the leak. The beleaguered company has warned, however, that the disaster “isn’t over.”

The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill is not only creating a mess in nearby states — it’s also creating a massive mess with BP’s decades-long campaign to work with NGOs on environmental issues, writes Noel Turnbull.

Publicly the US government has been critical of BP and its Gulf of Mexico spill. But the US military has contracts with BP worth at least US$980 million, with at least one big one being signed since the spill.

Dan Horton is working on a barge “four miles off Ground Zero”, unloading the crude oil from skimmer boats that are attempting to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. He is allowed to send one email a day.