“Since the 1979 Atlantic Empress disaster, interception and adsorption have been the primary methods for oil spill recovery, but these are sensitive to water-flow fluctuation,” explains lead author ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15, a facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru ...

(Zoom) While it's unclear why many insurers don't provide oil spill coverage, Dean suspects it might have to do with low demand. Outside of the Atlantic region, using oil to heat homes isn't very ...

The grounding of the oil tanker Sea Empress off the U.K.'s Pembrokeshire coast has prompted environmentalists to hurl criticism at both national government and local authorities for cavalier ...

Russia's Delfa Dolphin Rescue and Research Center said the deaths are "most likely related to the fuel oil spill." The center said on the messaging app Telegram that a total of 61 dead cetaceans ...

Block 3B/4B is located in the Orange Basin offshore South Africa, spanning an area of 17,581 km² in water depths ranging from 300 to 2,500 meters. Positioned southeast and along the trend of ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oil spill an "ecological disaster." The Kerch Strait, which separates the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula from the Krasnodar region, is an ...

Trump tried in 2017 to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals Obama had made at the end of his presidency, but a federal judge ruled in 2019 that the law does not give presidents the legal ...

Abstract: Timely and accurate representation of sea surface dynamic fields is crucial for oil spill drift prediction. Numerically forecasted sea surface dynamic fields are available in a timely manner ...