This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

By Shanna Hanbury A massive oil spill in Ecuadorian Amazon, in the northwestern Esmeraldas province, has covered multiple ...

Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively easily detected ... There are limitations to the ...

The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into ... Mid-depth oil and gas will flow along the path of prevailing ocean currents. Tracing the transport of surface oil in two dimensions ...

Or, rather, an inhabitant of the ocean. Researchers from China's Harbin ... to cleaning oil spills in-situ — at the site of the oil spill itself — using technology that's new, but also ...

While a major spillage off East Yorkshire was narrowly avoided, the incident serves as a reminder of the constant ...

The impacts of this disaster still linger in the ecosystems and for the people whose economic activities directly depend on this area of the Pacific Ocean. The Repsol oil spill impacted marine ...

It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been ...

spilling more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the ocean. What remains Britain's worst ever oil spill killed more than 15,000 sea birds in both the UK and France and seriously contaminated ...

Ecuadorian state oil company Petroecuador said it might not be able to honor contractual commitments to export crude as it ...

"It used to take human analysts weeks if not months to be able to detect a single (small-scale) oil pollution incident ... determining the composition of a spill, but the group says it offers ...

The Russian summer resort town of Anapa is suing two shipping companies for $2.4 million after an oil spill devastated its local beaches. The office of the town's mayor, Vasiliy Shvets ...