In August 2020, Vikash Tatayah at the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation made a phone call he never expected to make. He had “an unusual request,” he recounts telling friends in the U.K. who owned a ...

Every American adult can summon up searing images from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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 ...

Clean energy sources such as wind and solar go a long way in reducing the amount of pollutants entering the atmosphere, but ...

Oil spills rarely travel more than 300 km from their source before natural processes break them down. Ixtoc I, a 1979 spill ...

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 ...

In 2020, members of the Friends of Palm Beach found oily plastic and glass (left) and floating rubber chunks (right) on the beach, and researchers traced their origin offshore of Brazil. When oily ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Thousands of ...

The FAA issued multiple flight advisories urging airlines and pilots to exercise caution when flying over parts of Mexico, as ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

Forty years ago, Californians rose up by the thousands and stopped an ill-conceived federal plan to open our coast to offshore oil and gas drilling. We understood clearly that our healthy coastal ...

In a class at the Stewart C. Meyer Library in Harker Heights on Wednesday, home-schooled students learned about mixing oil ...