For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

Major oil spills can be catastrophic for seabirds and marine life. Nearly 15 years on from the biggest marine spill in history, are we any better at cleaning up oil at sea?

The use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills is not just a laboratory dream—it’s happening in fields and forests around the world. For example, after a major oil spill in the Pacific Northwest ...

This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) ...

Inspired by nature Researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology designed a vortex-anchored filter based on the structure of the deep-sea glass sponge known as Venus’ flower basket. (Courtesy: NOAA ...

07/25/2024 July 25, 2024. An oil spill has been spotted off the coast of the Philippines, after a tanker carrying about 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil capsized.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient ...

Despite international clean-up efforts, 30,000 birds and countless fish died in the 2007 oil spill. There is no international effort to clean up the current spill, so the environmental effects ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday, as authorities ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to deal with the ...