Workers battle to dissolve an oil spill heading towards the coast of Argentina after two ships collide off Uruguay.
... up under a microscope, alerting us to different substances leaking into the soil or seawater from oil spills, agricultural chemicals or other pollutants," says Professor Jan Van der Meer from the ...
Oil spills are a major environmental problem because they often occur at sea and in remote, ecologically-sensitive areas where their impact on birds, sea mammals and subsurface life may last for years ...
Two decades after 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound, what ... economy? As the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill approaches, Byron Pitts has the story.
... that aerogels, a super-lightweight solid sometimes called "frozen smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively soaking up environmental oil spills.
Two decades after 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Alaska's Prince William Sound, what ... economy? As the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill approaches, Byron Pitts has the story.
... smoke," may serve as the ultimate sponge for capturing oil from wastewater and effectively soaking up environmental oil spills. Their study is in ACS' Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
An oil spill polluting popular tourist beaches on Australia's northeast coast is 10 times worse than originally reported, according to the state government.
... technologies improve to ensure adequate clean-up of an oil spill. WWF is also calling on the Obama Administration ... Arctic be deemed permanently off-limits to oil and gas development. Such "no-go zones ...
... somewhat, the 2006 samples indicate that it still has not recovered the situation prior to the oil spill.
Apart from the mussels, their environment was also studied. In 2003 environmental conditions ...
Professor Ravi Naidu reveals the major oil spill that has been occurring in Australian towns and cities for the last century.
... Barbara, California. The new study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps ... of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.
The paper is being published in the May 15 issue ...
... : 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the pristine Alaskan waters, eventually covering 11 ... Now, imagine 8 to 80 times the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez accident. According to new ...
An oil spill from a ship sunk off the coast of the Indian state of Orissa could harm rare sea turtles, environmentalists warn.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A bunker fuel oil spill is threatening San Francisco Bay's ecosystem, which is already stressed by drought, ecologists say.
