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

Stakeholders in the maritime industry in the region this week held an intensive training to test Kenya’s national response ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s ...

In this study we propose an image classification method that allows to delineate oil spills from multi-sensor earth observation (EO) data, i.e. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral ...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) rank among the most destructive weather phenomena, often bringing intense winds, heavy rainfall, and ...

India's southern state of Kerala has sued Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company and sought $1.1 billion in compensation ...

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are an operational tool for monitoring and assessment of oil spills. At the same time, satellite imagery has been used almost entirely to detect oil presence/absence, yet ...

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

The accident was the largest oil spill in extension and duration in Brazil and even in the tropical South Atlantic (Soares et al., 2020b), representing a real threat to vulnerable coastal communities, ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work is being hit hard, explains this guest columnist.

Home heating oil spills can cost hundreds of thousands. Massachusetts lawmakers want insurance to cover it.

The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nea ...