Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds. News & Politics; ... Deepwater Horizon oil spill — which in 2010 contaminated the Gulf of Mexico with more ...

How pollution may remain in water after oil spill cleanups. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 07 / 240718145043.htm. University of Illinois Chicago.

Seabed-origin oil spills pose distinct challenges in marine pollution management due to their complex transport dynamics and ...

Climate and Environment Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico is one of more than 2,000 reports of water pollution after Ida. The Coast Guard and oil companies are working to identify and contain spills as ...

A bulldozer moves sand as oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California.

Crude oil production was at a low in the U.S. in 1992, but "low" is not "no." Just outside OKC, a spill occurred at a ...

Authorities have confirmed that no new oil pollution has been found off the coast of Limassol, following Tuesday’s announcement by the Cyprus ports authority (CPA) about a minor spill in the sea near ...

Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that remain suspended in the water, according to research from the University of Illinois Chicago. That means ...

Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019, according to a federal report Wednesday.

But water samples taken from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2 offshore southern Japan detected no oil pollution from the sunken tanker, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Condensate is an ultra-light petroleum ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. From oil spills to new species: how tech reveals the ocean ...

Though we’re still a ways off of detecting an oil spill or leak the moment it happens, many areas of Earth are imaged multiple times per day or even per hour in extremely high definition.