The team plan to conduct similar experiments in other places with natural seepages of oil, with different microbes, temperature and sunlight levels. If there is another oil spill in one of these ...

A growing oil spill in the Humber Estuary has sparked concerns of an environmental disaster after an oil tanker and cargo ship crashed off the Yorkshire coast. At least 36 people have been rescued ...

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

she sniffed out an oil spill submerged in water and trapped under ice. That's the most amazing part, said Vince Palace, one of the scientists behind Poppy's experiment in northern Ontario.

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

What remains Britain's worst ever oil spill killed more than 15,000 sea birds in both the UK and France and seriously contaminated up to 70 miles of beaches. Today, after a collision between jet ...

But just a few months later, an oil spill changed their neighborhood. Last September, MOL, Hungary’s leading gas and oil company, detected a drop in the pressure of one of their pipes.

Lancaster City Council has asked people to stay away from Half Moon Bay in Heysham following the "pollution incident" A beach has turned purple following a suspected oil spill, a council has said.