"Hair is one of the most absorbent materials out there," one Texan stylist said. In San Francisco, human hair demonstrated its effectiveness for an oil spill cleanup in 2007 when a ship ran into ...

A hair salon in Newport Beach is helping to clean up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one haircut at a time. All of the clippings that stylists sweep from the floor at Hair West Salon, 2817 ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- For Liz Ann Howard-Alvarez, BP's refusal to use hair boom against the oil spill means only one thing. "It makes them look like they don't have things under control," the 39-year ...

Liz Ann Howard-Alvarez of Mobile and Amanda Bacon of Point Clear have created a grass-roots effort to build oil-absorbent barriers filled with hair, either human or animal, as long as it's clean ...

STUART, Fla. — Heather Lundstrum would like to help clean up the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. She may not have much time — she’s a mother and a hair salon owner — but she has ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The connection between dog grooming and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill ...

Your unwanted hair might seem like the last thing anybody would find useful (unless, of course, you're a devout Hindu whose hair is turned into hair weaves). It turns out that the same mechanisms ...

Despite what the shampoo commercials tell you, maybe oily hair is a good thing after all. Or at least hair that picks up oil. That's why hairstylists in Duluth and across the country are ...

From carbon nanotubes to sawdust and cellulose to fern-inspired nano-hair, a multitude of materials are showing great promise for cleaning up oil spills. Now researchers have turned to waste ...

Oil slicks are common in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, ... Hair. Oil slicks are common in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, which contains one of the planet’s largest known oil and gas reserves.

MIDDLETOWN -- Debby Mastrianni, owner of The Hair Affair inside Main Street Market, opens up a cardboard box packed with about 250 different types of shorn hair. Normally, this large cluster of ...

URBANA — Hair Co. The Salon and Spa planned to donate piles of hair to be used to help clean up sludge from the Gulf oil spill. The only problem is BP officials aren’t using it, so for now the ...