Heart-rending images from the Gulf of Mexico reveal the effect of BP's oil spill on Mother Nature's helpless creatures. It seems animals are the first casualties of the tragic accident. July 9: A ...

“It’s a lesson that nature can cope and that ... also led to a rethink on how to respond to oil spills and to tighter rules governing the emerging global fleet of giant tankers.

“In situ” remediation of an oil or gas spill — doing it on site — is ... but in situ remediation can mitigate those risks and help nature heal itself.

A 1998 oil spill of more than 100,000 liters in the North Sea had killed 13,000 birds inWattenmeer national park, and the scientist had learned that cleaning oil-soaked birds could be as harmful ...

This sample from the Deepwater Horizon spill site, shows oil-eating bacteria (large shapes) and crude oil droplets (small shapes). In a paper published on May 9 in Nature Microbiology, Gutierrez ...

This process is not only effective but also elegantly simple—a testament to the power of nature’s own chemistry set. The use of mushrooms to clean up oil spills is not just a laboratory dream ...

Oil spills in Nigeria's mangroves are likely to remain a salient problem as the oil sector expands in size in the country and the agency responsible for reporting and cataloging environmental ...

Oil spills, particularly catastrophic ones resulting ... This is because special microorganisms that are widespread in nature can feed on crude oil components and break them down into harmless ...

About 10 barrels of oil and 1,500 barrels of industrial salt water spilled from an oil pipeline into a creek near the Quivira Wildlife Refuge. The spill included 10 barrels of oil and 1,500 ...

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Federal and state officials sue a pair of companies over a spill of crude oil that forced a local nature preserve to close for five years. Around 20,000 gallons ...

Due to the unprecedented nature of size of this spill in the bayou ... 90 bridge south of the community to respond to the oil spill, Lafourche Parish officials said. In a news conference Saturday ...