The Black Sea recently experienced an oil spill event, one that has rescuers in nearby Odesa racing to save multiple bird ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

The routes that oil slicks take in the Mediterranean, as a result of accidents at sea, are no longer a mystery. A new study, published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin, uses high-resolution ...

In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ensuing blowout spewed oil for the next three months, making it the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The oil ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

A white trailer stood by itself on the sand near the entrance to Oceanside Harbor. No one wanted to use it, but many were happy it was there. “It’s great to see that Oceanside has their spill response ...

SEVASTOPOL, September 1. /TASS/. The area of the oil spill in the Black Sea as a result of the leak near Novorossiysk, according to the latest data, is about 350 square km, Sergey Stanichny, a ...