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Two years after the horrific Deepwater Horizon explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the verdict is in for oil giant BP. The company has agreed to pay $4.5 billion in penalties and it pled guilty for felony...

In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill we explored several innovative methods to separate oil from water. Now a team from MIT has developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used...

Oil Tanker Photo from Shutterstock The Exxon Valdez, the tanker that was responsible for the world’s worst oil spill (until the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010), is to be broken up in...

A jaw-dropping 2,100,000 gallons of oil (as of last Saturday) has already gushed forth from the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico since the devastating explosion that’s had us glued to the news –...

A jaw-dropping 2,100,000 gallons of oil (as of last Saturday) has already gushed forth from the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico since the devastating explosion that’s had us glued to the news –...

Dogs may be our best friends, but did you know they can also aid us in cleaning up the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Matter of Trust, a San Franscisco non-profit devoted to “mimick[ing] how Mother Nature integrates...

Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker - Yahoo! NewsAnchorage Alaska - The Coast Guard said Thursday that a 136-foot tug with six crew aboard had just completed an ice survey and was heading back to port in Valdez...

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran into Bligh Reef. The 10.8 million gallons of oil that flowed into Prince William Sound remains one of the most catastrophic ecological disasters in history. To this day,...