For example, after a major oil spill in the Pacific Northwest, environmentalists inoculated contaminated soil with oyster mushroom spores. Within months, the once-dead earth was teeming with new ...

These days, you can also find oyster mushrooms in most supermarkets ... Experiments have shown that the fungus can break down petroleum by-products—that is, eat oil spills—as well as filter out ...

In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy divers carefully snip ...

A fresh crude oil spill has devastated the Oshika community in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State, destroying farmlands and contaminating water bodies. The incident, which occurred ...

An oil spill, reportedly caused by the activities of vandals, has devastated the Ikata community in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State. Executive Director of the Youths and ...

Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited has confirmed an illegal connection on its Okordia-Rumuekpe pipeline at Oshika community in Rivers State, causing an oil spill. According to the ...

NEW ORLEANS — An oil and natural gas spill in Plaquemines Parish has been "successfully secured", according to the Coast Guard on Sunday. The Unified Command said the team cut through the ...

The spill occurred at 8:15 a.m. while the vessel was transferring oil from its fuel tank to a gravity tank, the coast guard said in a news release. Oil overflowed onto the ship’s deck ...

The employee called the EPA oil spill hotline and deployed the park's spill kit, which includes absorbent pads and wattles, long tubes that soak up the oil in the water. The park's waterways were ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, stated it is “providing on-scene scientific support” such as tracking the spread of the spill and identifying natural resources at risk.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.-On a picture perfect Monday at Refugio State Beach some beachgoers said they still remember the Refugio Oil Spill like it was yesterday. "I remember coming out here ...