leading to an explosion and a release of burning oil. Read also: Russia’s largest oil pumping station disabled in drone attack It was also reported that the fire spread to a second tank.

Providing “educational” materials to schools is part of a larger strategy to downplay or deny the impacts of continuing to ...

Experts warn any spill could severely affect marine life, seabirds, and fragile ecosystems in and around the Humber Estuary ...

Finally, the last and most controversial way of removing an oil spill is to set it on fire. In-situ burning, as the technique is formally known, works by collecting the oil into a layer which is ...

What remains Britain's worst ever oil spill killed more than 15,000 sea birds in both the UK and France and seriously contaminated up to 70 miles of beaches. Today, after a collision between jet ...

Residents in Galeton, Weld County, about an hour's drive north of Denver, were ordered to evacuate late on Sunday night and Galeton Elementary School closed for Monday. The evacuation order, first ...

"For large spills, especially when response equipment is limited, these challenges may limit the amount of recoverable oil to less than 10% of the initial spill volume." Burning is another ...

One person was injured after a “well control incident” at a Chevron oil and gas facility northeast of Greeley that prompted ...

The Nuchatlaht First Nation’s council has advised people not to eat shellfish from local waters after recent testing of ...