In an attempt to update the decades-old technology used to combat the extreme environmental toll of major oil spills, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have created a technology that ...

The Electronic Dolphin is a small robot developed by engineers from RMIT University in Australia to test an innovative method for cleaning oil spills from the ocean. It is a remote-controlled ...

A Unified Command, consisting of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office (LOSCO) and the Louisiana ...

Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...

A new Electronic Dolphin robot can clean up oil spills using a sea urchin-inspired filter that pulls in oil while pushing water away.

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. “Gaining control of the ...

Meanwhile, the evidence shows that nearshore and in-port spills are four to five times more expensive to clean up than offshore spills and that heavy oil, such as bitumen, costs nearly 10 times more ...

Traditional cleanup methods, like skimming or burning on the surface, often work slowly or produce thick smoke that creates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State and federal agencies are investigating a recent mineral oil spill at Priest Rapids Dam as cleanup efforts conclude. Newly ...

The Department of Environmental Conservation last week launched a program to help eligible homeowners cover cleanup costs relating to home heating oil spills. DEC’s Prevention, Preparedness and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THREE RIVERS, Mass. (WWLP) – The Three Rivers Fire Department has been sent to a large oil spill in and around the Chicopee River.