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 ...

Nature - The Gulf of Mexico oil spill set records for its size and depth. A year on, the biggest impacts seem to be where they are hardest to spot. Skip to main content.

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 ...

Nature can heal itself after an oil spill, it just needs a little help Published: July 17, 2018 5:15pm EDT. Steven D Siciliano, University of Saskatchewan. Author. Steven D Siciliano ...

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 ...

“In situ” remediation of an oil or gas spill—doing it on site—is not ... but in situ remediation can mitigate those risks and help nature heal itself.

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 ...

Mark W. Rigler, Paul D. Boehm, and David L. Fiest. "Ixtoc 1 oil spill: flaking of surface mousse in the Gulf of Mexico." Nature. 1981. "Incident News: IXTOC I." National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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 ...

The incident highlights the dangers of having an oil pipeline adjacent to a nature preserve – the pipeline, laid in 1950, has had major spills in this region before – and the frustration of ...

Oil spills happen when small or large amounts of crude oil or distilled oils like gasoline or diesel are released into bodies of water and coastal lands. The spill contains toxic chemicals and can ...