Last week, at least 8,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into the northern Amazon rainforest in Peru, creating one of the…
With a new, loosey-goosey regulatory environment on its way, Exxon Mobil announced some major investments in the U.S.…
Everyone remembers the catastrophic oil spills like BP’s in 2010. Few remember the slow motion spills, like Taylor…
Although it sounds absolutely bonkers, a common technique for cleaning up oil spills is burning as much as possible,…
Seattle-based photographer Daniel Beltrá took these images for the book Spill (which you can buy here.) They're…
Oh, ferrofluids, is there anything you can't do? Researchers led by MIT's Markus Zahn have devised a technique for…
Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There…
Most everyone knows that oil and water don't mix. Oil molecules are non-polar, meaning their charge is distributed more…
Current industry-standard oil recovery equipment pulls roughly 1,000 gallons a minute but, as the Deep Water Horizon…
Seriously? BP admitted today that a pipeline leak on Saturday resulted in "2,100 to 4,200 gallons" of methanol and oily…
Donald Trump. Just a normal man with a normal ego. An ego so mild that he casually asked to be put in charge of BP…
Fixing This | One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history
Exactly a year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank to the bottom of the ocean, beginning the slow…
Uh oh! During some "routine business travel," a BP employee managed to lose a laptop which contains the personal data…
The Gulf oil spill was an ecological disaster of unmitigated proportions — but some scientific good may come from it.…
Ah man, don't you hate those days where everything goes totally right except for when you, I dunno, step in a puddle?…
Need a break from holiday commercialism? Want to send a much-needed gift to groups cleaning up one of 2010's worst…
The year is only just grinding to a halt, but Twitter's already released its list of the top subjects tweeted about in…
Sometimes we all have to to own up to our mistakes and serve the time. But not the classy folks at BP! According to the …
Scientists have found dead and dying coral reefs 4,500 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The dead coral means that oil…
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