Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up thousands of tons of fuel oil.

Scientists in northwest Ontario say they made a breakthrough in the search for a tool to identify the boundaries of ...

as evidenced by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 that caused notable environmental harm. The Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound and released nearly 11 million gallons of ...

Before the 2010 BP oil spill, the most notable – and devastating – oil spill was the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. It occurred when a tanker accidentally ran ashore and spilled millions of gallons of oil ...

Lausanne's soil was contaminated with dioxins from manufacturing processes. Cleaning is expensive and time-consuming, leaving ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that’s proven far more challenging for humans and their machines: she sniffed out an oil spill submerged in water and ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend, the second such incident in 10 days. The spill occurred just more than a mile ...

He and other volunteers were tasked with shoveling away the oil-drenched sand, but “the scale is just too big,” he said. Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the spill ...