Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

Often the result of burst pipelines or damage to oil rigs and ships, oil spills can take months or years to clean up, while exposing people to toxic compounds and harming wildlife. Various methods ...

Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...

Hidden within sphagnum moss, commonly known as peat moss, is an adsorbent material that can help us combat oil spills. A study by researchers from China presents a new bio-based oil adsorbent derived ...

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years ...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) This photo provided by Tammy Gremillion shows Jennifer Lee Gremillion, a Louisiana resident involved in the clean-up of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with her ...