The materials science research team from the University of Texas at Austin is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing a faster and more efficient system to clean up oil spills and ...

SAN DIEGO — A one-of-a-kind boat designed in San Diego is looking to make the ocean a cleaner place and revolutionize how oil spills are cleaned up. Ben Gurfinkel is a Holocaust survivor and ...

Last year, 140,000 gallons of crude oil spilled along a pristine coastline west of Santa Barbara. A corroded pipeline burst, releasing crude oil into a creek that empties into the ocean at Refugio ...

Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office have been working around the clock to clean up an oil spill ...

On a cold and windy day off the coast of Alabama, a team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts gathers, conducting the first test outside a laboratory for a potential ...

House Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday took a serious interest in a technology that BP currently is testing to separate oil from water in the Gulf Coast, but the owner of the technology, actor ...

In a world of weird, this one ranks up there... A non-profit out of San Francisco, California, is cleaning up oil spills using the naturally adsorbent properties of human hair, woven into thick mats ...

Society and Environment is the first to use AI to combine two types of satellite imagery to detect the location, thickness ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing ...