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 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 ...

Hungry marine bacteria devouring oil as a preferred food source HUNGRY MARINE BACTERIA DEVOURING OIL AS A PREFERRED FOOD SOURCE SCIENTISTS at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

That spill, which was one of the largest in the state’s history, was originally estimated at 588,000 gallons of crude oil. That total was later lowered to 543,000 gallons.

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 ...

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 ...