Oil spill clean up

What is the most absorbent material for cleaning up oil? Find out in this science project comparing the effectiveness of different sorbents in cleaning up oil spills!

Locals and environmental experts from the island nation of Mauritius are desperately trying to save their surrounding beaches and oceans from becoming an environmental catastrophe after the Japanese-owned MV Wakashio bulk oil carrier struck a coral reef off the coast on July 25.

Have you started hearing, "I'm bored!" yet??? I thought that I would share a fun project that we did this year that can get "bored" kids ...

A team from MIT have developed a new technique for "magnetically separating oil and water" that could be used to clean up oil spills. The method is said to be so efficient that the recovered oil can even be reused to offset the cost of the clean-up.

Seashells coated with oil caused by the oil spill are pictured by the shore

New research is yielding oil dispersants that are non-toxic and prevent oil from sticking to birds and wildlife

Try this oil spill clean up experiment with your students or kids! This is agreat one for Earth Day or anytime you want to teach about the environment!

Six years after Deepwater Horizon spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we still have no idea what we're doing

Californias latest oil spill almost drained right into the Pacific

Boats gather near remaining oil platforms near the site of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, leaving oily wakes as they move through the polluted water. Nearly one third of all U.S. oil production comes from 3,500 such platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

We all expect to do a little bit of routine maintenance on our cars. But few of us expect to do maintenance outside our cars, on the once-clean garage floor. Sadly, oil spills are part of owning a car. Luckily, they can eliminated with an...

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You take pride in how your home looks from the outside, which means that those oil stains on your driveway have got to go. Fortunately, with the right products and a bit of elbow grease, you can remove grease and oil spots in no time....

Oil spills destroy earth's ecosystems.

Learn about the impact oil spills have on the marine ecosystem, then get hands on with an oil spill cleanup experiment for the science fair.

by Emily Flitter (Reuters) – More than 22,000 barrels of oil, refined fuels and chemicals spilled at sites across Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, along with millions of...

Easy oil spill experiment for kids. Pour cooking oil over the top of water and experiment with different absorbent materials to try to clean it up.

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The American Trader ran over its anchor off Huntington Beach on Feb. 7, 1990, causing the biggest California oil spill since the 1969 disaster in Santa Barbara