Oil spills are inherently a bad deal for all involved, and have accounted for some of humanity’s biggest environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean ...

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.

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an ‘in-situ’ fire pool that stops the ...

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