While a major spillage off East Yorkshire was narrowly avoided, the incident serves as a reminder of the constant ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency ...

Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic life and animals ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Rough waters and high winds were complicating efforts to clean up a recent oil spill off the coast of California, state officials said Saturday.

Short says that mechanical recovery has improved in recent decades, with better booms to corral the oil ... spills are so hard to clean up, avoiding them happening in the first place remains the ...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — A recent oil spill on the Little Cuyahoga River does not pose a threat to water sources, wildlife or aquatic life, an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency representative said ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that will affect wildlife in the oceans and on the shores for a long time. But can microorganisms come to the rescue? bacteria constitute a ...

However, a recent BBC investigation found the energy ... "does little to address the real problem in the Niger Delta: Oil spills due to theft, illegal refining and sabotage, which cause the most ...

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery of new species and uncovering how light pollution impacts marine life. Satellite imagery ...