Nevertheless, classifying actual oil areas from look-alikes in SAR images is still challenging (Fingas & Brown 2018, Alpers et al. 2017), as these dark formations can be associated with oil spills, ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work ...

The blowout occurred at 5:50 p.m. April 6 at the Bishop well south of Weld County Road 74 and lasted five days, leading to ...

From poisoned workers to vanishing wetlands, the truth about BP’s toxic legacy in Louisiana is worse than you remember.

Spill in West Nishnabotna River is the second the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has investigated at the site ...

The remarkable physical properties of ionic liquids (ILs) make them potentially excellent lubricants. One of the challenges for using ILs as lubricants is their high cost. In this article, atomic ...

One remediation technique of oil spills is the application of dispersants to oil slicks, which is essentially a process of emulsification. Tetradecane and crude oil-in-seawater emulsions formed with ...

After about 5,000 gallons of oil spilled into the water in Baltimore’s Harbor East, crews are racing to clean the harbor as forecasts of rain threaten to worsen the situation.

A massive oil spill in the Baltimore harbor that began Wednesday has now dumped 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the harbor, more than doubling the initial amount reported, the Johns Hopkins ...

Clean up continues after this week's fuel spill in Harbor East and Mayor Brandon Scott joined 11 News Today to talk more about that and other issues in the city.

Thai Oil said it had initiated its emergency response plan, deploying three containment booms around the spill site and applying oil dispersant chemicals to limit the spread. At 10:30 a.m. on Friday, ...