Debbie McGuire will never forget the memory of the little seabird peering back at her, she said, only the tiny eyes visible ...

A large explosion struck an oil tanker off the Kuwait coast, triggering a major oil spill and raising environmental concerns, with Kuwait's Interior Ministry later confirming the incident occurred ...

A new study links oil found on Palm Beach debris to a 2019 Brazil spill that traveled 5,200 miles across the Atlantic on ...

A new study links oil found on Palm Beach debris to a 2019 Brazil spill that traveled 5,200 miles across the Atlantic on floating plastic.

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Oil spills in oceans can spell disaster for ecosystems, but options for mitigating them are limited and can come with their own environmental challenges. A new "fire tornado" from Texas A&M University ...

While political focus is on the energy crisis, the direct targeting of oil tankers threatens to turn the sea black ...

An oil spill from a capsized cargo ship in the Indian Ocean is washing ashore on the pristine beaches of Thailand's most ...

The "dark fleet," comprised of oil tankers that evade detection and sanctions, is a growing concern in the global oil trade.

"Sunlight" beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles ...

As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. O ...

Researchers have run the first large-scale field test of deliberately generated fire whirls over crude oil floating on water, and the results challenge conventional thinking about oil-spill cleanup.