Hidden within sphagnum moss, commonly known as peat moss, is an adsorbent material that can help us combat oil spills. A study by researchers from China presents a new bio-based oil adsorbent derived ...

It followed the signing of the Nigeria-China relationship agreement last year, with 74 of those companies specifically focused on the oil and gas industry. According to a statement by Jaafaru ...

By then, about 40,000 barrels of oil had escaped into the Atlantic Ocean, according to an English High Court evaluation, making the December 2011 incident one of Nigeria’s worst spills in a decade. At ...

Environmental activists staged a protest at Poole Quay to mark the second anniversary of the oil spill. Extinction Rebellion Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (XR BCP) and Extinction Rebellion ...

OpenAI’s image generation features have taken the internet by storm, but the excitement has led to some challenges. Just days after the launch of GPT-4o, which enhanced image generation tools in ...

U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country's dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply rising oil prices ...

But at 4:55 pm, a tanker filled with kerosene (a flammable oil) fell off the flyover and caught fire. The dramatic incident, which occurred today, was caught on camera. People were seen running to ...

An Ontario oil refinery spilled 5,000 liters ... The company, Wheeler said, deployed booms to contain the spill and Ontario's St. Clair Township — across the river from Marysville — sent ...

Ontario’s Environment Ministry is assessing the cleanup of Thursday's crude oil spill into the St ... The ministry said Suncor deployed spill containment booms on the river and St. Clair ...

Petroecuador confirmed the spill volume and reported the recovery of 30,257 bbl of crude-oil-and-water mixture ... deployed seven additional containment booms along the Viche River and mobilized ...

South West Water has reduced storm overflow spills by 93 per cent - at its fifth-highest spilling site since 2023. Rilla Mill near Liskeard has seen a reduction in spills thanks to a series of ...

Environmental and emergency agencies from both sides of the border are scrambling to contain and assess the aftermath of a crude oil spill ... utilizing booms to help contain the spill.