Photo Essays
North Dakota, a Portrait of an Oil Boom
North Dakota’s oil boom has been called everything from the region’s equivalent of a gold rush, to its version of Silicon Valley. And it’s all thanks to a the...
LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
World War II in Color: American Bombers and Their Crews, 1942
Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the...
Venezuela Mourns the Death of Hugo Chavez
Following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, scores of mourners took to the streets of Caracas to mourn his death. Chavez died at 58 following after...
LIFE With Natalie Wood: Photos of the Superstar in 1963
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zacharenko in San Francisco at the height of the Great Depression, Natalie Wood (“Natasha” to close friends) was one of those rare stars...
Linda Christian: The Real ‘First Bond Girl’
As the latest Bond film, Skyfall, bows in the U.S. — after setting box-office records overseas — media everywhere are looking back at 007 movies and celebrating...
Oil in the River: Photos from Montana's Fouled Yellowstone
The rupture of an Exxon Mobil pipeline releases almost 1,000 barrels of oil into a flood-swollen river
Oil Spill Reaches New Zealand Beaches
A Liberian cargo ship's oil leak begins to take its toll on New Zealand's wildlife
Oil in the Sand
In Canada's Alberta Province, Syncrude is mining black gold hand over fist Photographs for TIME by Todd Korol / Aurora Select
Alaska: In Praise of Big Country
Like other remote, “exotic” lands, the vast expanse of mountains, forests, tundra, wild streams and endless, rugged shoreline known as Alaska has long fired the...
Oil Fires!
A series of deadly blazes have broken out in Australia, India and Puerto Rico
China Fights an Oil Spill
After a devastating fire in Dalian, emergency workers begin to clean up a massive spill on the Yellow Sea
Advance of the Oil Blobs
As BP battles to contain the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the spill congeals around the flora and fauna of the coastline
Protesting BP
As the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, anger at British Petroleum inspires critics to stage bold protests
Exclusive Photos: The Oil Spill Spreads
The Gulf coastline struggles to contain the mess created by the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon rig Photographs by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
Victims of the BP Oil Spill
Photographer Charlie Riedel discovered several birds covered in crude from the leaking British Petroleum well in the Gulf of Mexico, on a beach at East Grand...
A Brief History of the Exxon Valdez Disaster
Twenty years after the "Exxon Valdez" oil spill — the catastrophe on March 24, 1989, that released 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound...
Critters of the Gulf Oil Spill
Heartbreaking images of the biggest victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster
The Prestige Oil Spill
An environmental catastrophe occurs as a tanker sinks off the coast of Spain
South Korea's Oil Spill
Blackened waves wash up on Korean shores following the worst spill in the country's history
