Researchers want to clean up oil spills with laser-treated cork
Scientists just uncorked a very useful new material.
Tag: oil spill
Oil spill from Syria is close to hitting Cyprus’ shores
Hopefully, everyone will be banding together and doing their utmost best to tackle this spill.
A French town is using human hair to clean oil pollution from the ocean
Hairdressers are putting our old hair to good use.
Oil spill update: Mauritius pumps out almost all the fuel from the Japanese cargo ship
The country is already dealing with more than 1,000 tons of fuel that leaked into the water
Fuel tank collapses in Russia, leaking 20,000 tons of diesel in Arctic river
It's considered the second largest environmental accident in modern Russian history.
Sponge based on common mattress foam could clean up oil spills
A coated polyurethane foam could become an indispensible tool in our oil cleanup kit.
Chile oil spill: 40,000 liters spilled in pristine Patagonia
Oil spills strike again.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was 8 years ago. The ocean is still struggling to recover
The damage is still going.
Revolutionary material can absorb 90 times its weight in spilled oil. It can be squeezed like a sponge and then reused
Oil spills are never a pretty sight but an innovative sponge-like material could make these events far less disastrous.
New oil spill spews 90,000 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico
An offshore of Royal Dutch Shell is responsible for a new oil spill which covered a 13- by 2-mile sheen ...
BP to pay US government $20.8 billion fine for Gulf oil disaster
A federal judge has approved the $20.8 bn settlement for BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This fine ...
Two oil spills in the course of one month wreck havoc in the Amazon
Two major oil spills in the course of only one month are threatening Amazonian wildlife and local communities. Peru’s General ...
Disperstants used by BP for oil spill didn’t do much
The oil company used dispersants, but the technique was actually counter productive, just creating the appearance of the oil going ...
British Petroleum fined a record $20.8 billion for oil spill
In a monumental decision, British Petroleum (BP) was fined $20.8 billion for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of ...
By 98 to 1, U.S. Senate passes amendment saying climate change is real
It's hilarious and sad at the same time: the US Senate had to vote whether or not climate change is ...
BP’s fine for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be lower than expected
A federal judge decided this week that British Petroleum will pay a maximum of $13.7 billion for its 2010 Gulf ...
Children are cleaning up an oil spill in Bangladesh – with their bare hands
On 9 December 2014 an oil spill occurred at the Sela river of Sundarbans, Bangladesh, a UNESCO World Heritage site. ...
Massive oil spill floods nature reserve in Israel – possibly the country’s worst environment disaster
More than 80 people were hospitalized after inhaling noxious fumes after a pipeline failure caused some 600,000 gallons of oil to ...
BP fined $17.6 billion following 2010’s “reckless” oil spill
A federal judge has called major oil company BP (British Petroleum) "reckless", and Transocean and Halliburton "negligent" following the major oil ...
Duke Energy Spilled At Least 5,000 Gallons Of Diesel Into The Ohio River On Monday
Between 5,000 and 8,000 gallons of diesel were spilled into the Ohio River on Monday, but officials say drinking water ...
One of the most devastating oil spills 25 years later
By the time the oil stopped flowing, nearly 11 million gallons had leaked out, contaminating 1,300 miles of shoreline and ...
Ecuador plans to move ahead controversial drilling efforts in the Amazon
An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Yasuni National Park to be ...
New Chevron oil spill in Utah – bird refuge threatened
It's Chevron's third oil spill in three years in Utah alone; a June 2010 spill involved more than 30,000 gallons ...
Minor oil spills are underreported most of the time by oil companies
Oil spills, especially the big ones, can cause irremediable damage to the local ecosystem. Unfortunately once in a while, there's ...
BP to pay record fine in case of oil spill
Remember the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It is one of the biggest environmental disasters ...
Sponge polymer soaks up oil and turns it into gel – viable option for cleaning oil spills
Oil spills are one of the most devastating man-made ecological disasters out there. During such an outbreak, millions of gallons ...
BP and Halliburton point fingers at each other in the oil spill trial
British Petroleum (BP) accused Halliburton, one of the biggest oil service companies in the world, of destroying evidence which showed ...
No, what you’re seeing isn’t a road
When I saw this picture, it was morning, my eyes hadn't opened up quite yet, and I thought "what's so ...
