The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

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.

UK seas suffered nearly 700 oil and chemical spills in the last 12 months - a ... about our ocean to use the map to help us expose this hidden outrage. Seeing the data laid out makes it crystal ...

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L), opens new tab should take responsibility for environmental damage in Nigeria caused by oil spills, a community leader said on Thursday as a pivotal ...

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Shell's Nigerian subsidiary told the BBC: "The operating environment in the Niger Delta remains challenging because of the huge scale of illegal activities such as oil theft. "When spills do ...

The British environmental group Oceana has created an interactive spill map that lets users track oil and chemical spills in real ... data that is otherwise hidden within an opaque and misleading ...

The court action was initiated by the Ogale and Bille communities who have a combined population of around 50 000 people in the area of Ogoniland. They say the oil spills caused by oil-producing ...