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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Rivers Fire Chief Stephen Nodurf told 22News that crews were called at around 11 a.m. Wednesday for an oil spill of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A non-profit organization uses an often discarded part of the body to clean up deadly oil spills: the hair on your head. No, they won't flip you over and use you like a mop. Matter of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) student hopes to help clean up the planet's future oil spills. "If anybody ever feels like they want to clean up the oceans with me ...

An oil spill affecting Singapore has spread beyond a luxury beach resort to a marine reserve and other parts of the island nation as authorities intensify cleanup efforts. The oil spilled into the ...