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Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...

On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in North America. Within hours, black crude oil was spreading across the icy ...

An oil spill has contaminated 933 kilometers (about 580 miles) of shoreline along the western Gulf of Mexico, impacting the Mexican states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Campeche and Tabasco in eastern ...

I grew up on the beaches of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Visits to Tenby were my family’s summer ritual: sand between our toes, paddling in rockpools, strawberry syrup on ice cream. But 30 years ...

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spread roughly 373 miles across open water and fouled about 125 miles of Mexican coastline, killing wildlife and contaminating protected reserves along the state ...