A new Electronic Dolphin robot can clean up oil spills using a sea urchin-inspired filter that pulls in oil while pushing water away.

With over 60 vessels deployed for cleanup efforts, mariners are encouraged to avoid certain areas in the Gulf due following the LOOP oil spill.

Sometimes, the craziest ideas just happen to be the best. Fire whirls burn oil spills faster and cleaner than fire pools, a new study shows ...

RMIT University engineers in Australia have built a remote-controlled minibot that hoovers up oil spills using an innovative ...

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A University of Houston researcher has earned a $1.8 million grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to determine how the use of dispersants to break up an oil spill affects the natural ...

There’s another oil spill? Can’t you just use a big sponge to clean it up? That might be possible. Researchers at Argonne National Labs have devised a sponge with properties that should make it ...

A Lone Star Lake resident who has lived on Ellison Creek Reservoir since 1979 describes seeing oil spill cleanup crews ...

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Mussels may be popular among seafood lovers, but many boaters consider them pests. They colonize ship bottoms, clog water pipes and stick to motors. To chemical engineers, though, those very same ...

Crews spent more than seven hours Monday and Tuesday removing cooking oil from miles of streets north of downtown, and officials say drivers should still be cautious. Allen County Emergency Management ...