The pipeline shut down on April 8 after an oil spill occurred near Fort Ransom, a community about 80 miles southwest of Fargo, North Dakota.

An oil tanker suffered an explosion off Libya's coast without causing injuries or pollution, sparking speculation about a ...

The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a spill.

Thousands of gallons of oil spilled into the water in Baltimore's Harbor East area Wednesday afternoon from diesel tanks supplying fuel to the Johns Hopkins Hospital care facilities, officials said.

This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan wildlife and spurred reform.

While the long-term effects of Wednesday’s 2,000-gallon oil spill in the Baltimore Harbor are unknown, the city’s jewel has seen much worse.

10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are ...

The approximately 600,000-bpd Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the United States remained shut down Wednesday after an oil spill near Fort Ransom, North Dakota, on Tuesday released an ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

By mimicking the skeletal architecture and filter feeding patterns of the sponge, they created a filter that exhibited a high mass transfer and hydrodynamic stability in cleaning up oil spills under ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The disaster produced a ...

An expert in chemical engineering and environmental science, Engr Abdullahi Abdulsalam, has voiced concerns over continuous oil spills in the Niger Delta, saying they pose a severe risk to surface ...