According to Defenders of Wildlife, a US NGO, an oil spill in Alaska's North Slope could be the largest crude oil spill since drilling began in the area 30 years ago – second in Alaska only to the ...

John “Jack” Reed spent 20 years and 25 days as a physical oceanographer for the U.S. Coast Guard, and one of the major ...

showed that addition of fertilizers can increase the rate but not the extent of oil degradation. Trials in Prince William Sound in Alaska, USA, after the Exxon Valdez spill have shown that this ...

Hurricane Helene flooding led to one of the largest sewage spills ever in the Rock Hill region, and several others along with it. All total, nearly 500,000 gallons of sewage spilled into Rock Hill ...