Clean-up crews have been spraying the airborne oil with water to push it back to the surface to more easily collect it, and prevent the oil from drifting further away from the spill site.

NEW ORLEANS – Nearly 200 personnel are working to contain an oil spill along the coast of Louisiana that threatens to pollute marshes around Plaquemines Parish. According to the U.S. Coast Guard ...

Hidden within sphagnum moss, commonly known as peat moss, is an adsorbent material that can help us combat oil spills. A study by researchers from China presents a new bio-based oil adsorbent ...

JOHOR BAHRU – An investigation of the oil spill incident at Johor’s Tanjung Langsat Port Terminal (TLPT) will begin once clean-up operations have been completed, said a state executive ...

JOHOR BARU: An investigation of the oil spill incident at Tanjung Langsat Port Terminal (TLPT) will begin once clean-up operations have been completed, says a Johor exco member. Health and ...

Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed an energy-efficient graphene-based technology for effective oil-water separation, promising to revolutionize oil spill management. The system absorbs ...

It’s time to put an end to fossil fuel industry influence over governments, media and society. But it’s well past time to clean up the massive oil spill polluting our children’s minds! David Suzuki is ...

Often the result of burst pipelines or damage to oil rigs and ships, oil spills can take months or years to clean up, while exposing people to toxic compounds and harming wildlife. Various methods ...

In the year 2000, over 5,000 barrels of crude oil ... spill in 2000 was by no means unique, it did spur one woman into action. Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, of the indigenous Kukama community, who ...

Trucks and workers started cleaning up the Keystone oil pipeline spill in rural North Dakota, though its cause and the project timing is unclear. The pipeline ruptured Tuesday morning in ...