Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill just off the coast of Ciudad del Carmen, in southern Mexico, was maybe the ...

As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, then baffled.

The way oil drops break up at the water's surface means some oil may not get cleaned up after a spill. Oil drops from underwater oil spills can break into tinier droplets at the surface that remain ...

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Environmental disasters involving huge oil tankers poisoned wastewater and thousands of tons of lead. The lead got into the ...

When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the ...

The Pune campus of Gokhale Institute drives the OCEAN initiative, turning toxic lube oil into income for fishermen and ...

Kate Sullivan de Estrada receives funding from Research England’s Policy Support Fund allocation to the University of Oxford via the Public Policy Challenge Fund. Her project under the Fund is titled ...