Experts warn any spill could severely affect marine life, seabirds, and fragile ecosystems in and around the Humber Estuary ...

When we think of oil spills, the images that come to mind may include seabirds coated in black slime, huge iridescent slicks lapping onto shore and armies of wellington-clad cleaners armed with ...

Marilyn Heiman, who at the time worked for the Alaska State Legislature, told USA TODAY in 2014 that the spill was responsible for the deaths of 250,000 seabirds ... to oil spills in the U.S ...

Can the natural ability of microorganisms to degrade oil be harnessed to clean up oil spills? In the open ocean, there is often not much that can be done, owing to the sheer size of the affected area.

Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively ... The effects are profound, from disrupting feeding by fish and seabirds, to interfering with coral spawning and the nightly ...

Hugo Tagholm, executive director of Oceana UK, said: “This tragic event shows once again that spills occur everywhere Big Oil goes ... seal colonies and several seabirds. Greenpeace UK said ...

We’re not going to let that happen. When Plains’ corroded coastal oil pipeline ruptured in May 2015 near Santa Barbara, it spilled more than 120,000 gallons of crude, killing hundreds of marine ...

A proposed extension that would have brought crude oil to the Gulf Coast was shut down in 2021 after years of protests. The pipeline has had at least three significant spills since 2017 ...