Researchers have shown that controlled fire whirls can clean up oil spills faster and more cleanly than traditional burning methods. The spinning flames consumed up to 95% of the oil, cut soot ...

Floatable beads made from chitosan and cellulose acetate and enhanced with bentonite were engineered to effectively clean oil from water. The beads showed good oil adsorption capacity while remaining ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A troubled oyster harvesting season is over in Louisiana, but the industry is still dealing with the impacts of the LOOP oil spill ...

A crude oil spill that began with a ruptured pipeline in East L.A. has now spread miles down the L.A. River, prompting an ...