Advances in nanotechnology may provide solutions to oil spill cleanups in coastal regions that are more effective, safer and work much faster than current methods, according to a new paper. The paper ...

Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake.

Water rescue crews and first responders were on the scene Monday following an oil spill at a plant in Lower Burrell, ...

Crews worked Tuesday to clean what they could of a hydraulic oil spill that happened at the Braeburn Alloy Steel Plant Monday ...

But for a few months, there was a layover and no concrete effort in having a retention talk. I was perplexed about what’s happening. So, because of a lack of communication, we came to a ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Crews have cleaned up a concrete spill in the Atascocita area Friday morning. The Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office said a truck spilled the wet concrete ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15, a facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru ...

Rwanda announced on Wednesday its first oil discovery, confirming 13 reservoirs in Lake Kivu, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “We have oil,” said Francis Kamanzi ...

This is one of the largest sewage spills in California in recent months. Sewage spills pose serious public health risks because they contain harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites that can cause ...

After 1,100 litres of oil spilled onto their property, the Waite family was hit with a $345,000 cleanup bill and a lien on their home. They assumed they had insurance coverage in the event of an ...

The Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) has called for urgent intervention by the relevant authorities to stop the oil spill from a leaking wellhead and the resultant fire outbreak between ...