Uncovering hidden oil spills Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively easily detected. When a tanker crashes or a pipe bursts, scientists know where to look. But smaller ...

oil pollution incident," explained Mitchelle De Leon of US-based NGO SkyTruth. The group harnesses machine learning to comb through large datasets of satellite imagery and find spills that might ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...