Unlike tanker or pipeline oil spills, there is a long time between serious blowouts in any one country. The localized and sporadic nature of these disasters makes it hard to share knowledge or ...

In shallow spills, oil tends to rise quickly to the surface ... Because of the legal nature of the work, many of the academic researchers who are participating in it find the process foreign.

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 ...

Oil slicks, or spills, are a type of marine pollution on the ocean surface resulting from spills from ships, oil and gas platforms, as well as natural seeps from the ocean bottom. Some causes of oil ...

“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 ...

An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that supplies water to indigenous communities, according to the country's environmental ministry. Nearly two ...

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 ...

Oceanic oil spills are one of the worst events humanity can inflict upon the natural world. Whether it's from an oil rig's mishap or deliberate wartime actions, oil being dumped into the ocean ...

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 ...