A Louisiana island that provides critical nesting habitat for pelicans and other seabirds is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of erosion and a crippling 2010 oil spill.

Water rescue crews and first responders were on the scene Monday afternoon following an oil spill at a plant in Lower Burrell ...

Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region's ecosystem can be ...

LOWER BURRELL, Pa. — Crews worked Tuesday to clean what they could of a hydraulic oil spill that happened at the Braeburn ...

(Courtesy: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition) Oil spills can pollute large volumes of surrounding water – thousands of times greater than the spill itself – causing ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Jan 21 (Reuters) - An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate ...

SINGAPORE – The marine environment might recover after each oil spill incident, but too many of such events would compromise its ability to do so, said marine scientists. Singapore has had at ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations in the ...

SaharaReporters learnt that the oil spill was reported on Monday evening and blamed on suspected equipment failure from the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria. A crude oil spill ...

Advances in nanotechnology may provide solutions to oil spill cleanups in coastal regions that are more effective, safer and work much faster than current methods, according to a new paper.