A variety of perspectives exist about the value and potential of dispersing surface slicks of spilled oil or refined products. These perspectives reflect varying degrees of knowledge and opinions ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

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 ...

It flowed into the water below the Harbor East neighborhood, turning it into a wine-dark sea. “It looked like sangria,” one fire official said Thursday. Barely a day after Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon ...

The Iran War’s effects are moving past economics and into the environment. Multiple instances of what appear to be oil ...

The Lamentation of Obololi depicts the devastating effects of an oil spill on a community in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. This story goes beyond environmental damage to reveal the Obololi people’s systemic ...

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Tropical Storm Bonnie could help dissipate a giant oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, but could further damage fragile marshlands if heavy wind and waves drive more oil ashore, experts said today. The ...

Clean Harbors employees work to clean up a heating oil spill in the Kenduskeag along Norumbega Parkway. About 75 gallons of heating oil spilled into the stream on Monday. Credit: Marie Weidmayer / BDN ...

COCODRIE, La. (WVUE) - Seafood industry business owners and workers in Terrebonne Parish say they are anxious about the effects of a recent oil leak. Oil leaked from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port ...

Approximately 3 million gallons (10,000 metric tons [tonnes]) of oil or refined petroleum product 1 are spilled into the waters of the United States every year (NRC, 2003). This amount represents the ...