Can the natural ability of microorganisms to degrade oil be harnessed to clean up oil spills? In the open ocean, there is often not much that can be done, owing to the sheer size of the affected area.

"The operating environment in the Niger Delta remains challenging because of the huge scale of illegal activities such as oil theft. "When spills do happen from our facilities we clean up and ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that's proven far more challenging for humans and their machines.

The next time you find yourself facing an oil spill, reach for flour. Not just for baking, the following flour hack will clean up kitchen spills with ease and save you from trying to mop up a big ...

Banks and Schwab have used plants to help clean up a Texas oil pipeline spill, contamination at an Indiana manufactured-gas plant, an industrial sludge site in California and diesel spills on Naval ...

with pro-Kremlin media reporting that he was possibly exposed to toxic fumes during volunteer efforts to clean up the Black Sea oil spill. Alexander Komin, a student at Anapa Industrial College ...

Thailand's coastal authorities are working today to clean up an oil spill from a tanker that sank south-west of Bangkok. The oil slick had reached a fishermen’s village and mangrove forest on the ...

Poppy’s first lake experiment came in October ... He has helped clean up some of North America’s most consequential oil spills, including the largest in U.S. history.

Greenpeace has estimated the size of the area affected to be about 400 square miles, but with much of the oil underwater, it is difficult to determine. While the spill ... to clean it up because ...

was also found with traces of oil sludge believed to be a result of the oil spill. “The clean-up works at the new location will begin there on Monday (July 1),” he told reporters when asked to ...