The materials science research team from the University of Texas at Austin is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing a faster and more efficient system to clean up oil spills and ...

Last year, 140,000 gallons of crude oil spilled along a pristine coastline west of Santa Barbara. A corroded pipeline burst, releasing crude oil into a creek that empties into the ocean at Refugio ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use sound waves to create specific patterns on water that can move and trap floating objects, reported IEEE Spectrum. This breakthrough could change how we clean up ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new material from moss that could transform how we clean up oil spills. The team from Guizhou Education University modified sphagnum moss to absorb oil while ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) student hopes to help clean up the planet's future oil spills. "If anybody ever feels like they want to clean up the oceans with me ...

Rush says ocean can take care of itself. May 3, 2010— -- Scientists and environmentalists scoffed at Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the ocean would clean up itself following a devastating ...

Efforts to clean up a mineral oil spill in the Spokane River between Argonne Road and Felts Field continued over the weekend.