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 ...

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history ...

Recovery work now focuses on reducing other threats, like ship strikes and underwater ... looking down on an oil burn-off meant to clean up oil in the weeks after the spill. Image by PJ Hahn.

Two months after a cargo shop ran aground on Newfoundland's west coast, politicians are voicing fears of environmental damage ...

(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 ...

A key focus of the investment is strengthened surveillance of critical underwater infrastructure following a series of ...

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 ...

PARIS — Denmark will invest about 4 billion Danish kroner (US$615 million) through 2033 in the country’s Navy and Home Guard ...

Villagers are set to stage a coastal clean ... ship fire. Millions of nurdles - tiny beads of plastic - and larger chunks of burnt debris ended up in the ocean after a cargo ship sailed into an ...