Starting in the 1920s, American and British subsidiaries of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Gulf and Royal Dutch Shell turned environmentally pristine Lake Maracaibo, which empties out into the Gulf ...

A century of degradation Lake Maracaibo is a semi-closed salty bay that feeds into the Gulf of Venezuela, which merges into the Caribbean Sea. The great estuary was once a commercially valuable ...

Lake Maracaibo, spanning some 5,100 square miles ... “It’s an open system with entry into the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Venezuela, so the water is not just stuck there.” ...

Though oil slicks are common in Lake Maracaibo, which contains one of one ... but to clean the 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in California, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and, most recently, ...

From the north – where a narrow strait connects it to the Gulf of Venezuela – to the south, Lake Maracaibo is the largest natural body of water in South America, with a surface area of around ...

A Valloeby Shipping tanker has successfully delivered the first cargo of a new Venezuelan crude blend to the US. The shipment ...

About a quarter of the residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, have moved away — and more are expected to soon follow. Maracaibo dispatch About a quarter of the residents of ...