Discover how scientists traced oil-coated plastics that washed up on a Florida beach back to a 2019 Brazilian oil spill that ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

Coast Guard officials have not determined what caused an oil sheen that appeared off Huntington Beach last week, officials said Monday afternoon. The sheen was first reported Thursday evening about ...

Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities sought ...

Rush says ocean can take care of itself. May 3, 2010— -- Scientists and environmentalists scoffed at Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the ocean would clean up itself following a devastating ...

The next big breakthrough when it comes to cleaning up disastrous oil spills in the ocean just might come from the ocean ...

An oil spill reported near Nanaimo, B.C.'s Duke Point Ferry Terminal earlier this week has led to concerns for the ...

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 can ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

Researchers use laser treatments to transform ordinary cork into a powerful tool for treating oil spills. They tested variations of a fast-pulsing laser treatment, closely examining the nanoscopic ...

China's Ministry of Transport is planning to establish a laboratory specialising in treating oil spills at sea, the first of its kind in the country, local media Science and Technology Daily reported ...