Hurricane season in the Atlantic is heating up. The first major storm of 2010, Earl, has already grazed the Caribbean and could wallop the east coast of the U.S. later this week. Behind it, more tropical waves are skittering off Africa and heading for the open seas.

No oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since July 15, when BP placed a tight-fitting cap over the broken Macondo well.

Russian emergency workers have increased forest patrols in a western region contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, trying to prevent wildfires that could spread harmful radiation, officials said Wednesday.

Those who rely on the Gulf of Mexico’s rich fishing grounds say there’s a new crisis brewing – convincing skeptical consumers that the seafood they harvest and sell is safe to eat.

BP Plc’s newly named chief executive on Tuesday called the Gulf oil spill a “wake-up call” for the entire industry as the company tallied up its losses and disclosed two U.S. investigations.

The massive pock in southwestern Egypt was created no more than a few thousand years ago.

BP has now posted the “original” photo, they claim.

The oil-separating centrifuges will work, but they would have worked better months ago

BP was encouraged early Friday by results from an experimental cap shutting in oil from its busted Gulf of Mexico well, saying everything was holding steady 17 hours into the effort.

BP Plc is in talks to sell assets to Apache Corp. as it seeks funds to pay for the biggest U.S. oil spill in history.