The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms all looked out of place on the white sand of Mombasa's touristy Nyali beach.

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil ...

The concentration of oil pollution in their liver tissue and bile increased more than 800% between 2011 and 2017. And high levels of PAHs appeared in fish that don't call the seafloor home.

Overfishing, plastic pollution, climate change — every problem in the ocean is tied to fossil fuels.” Originally Published: October 8, 2021 at 12:16 PM PDT ...

The oil from a spill eventually becomes a tar ball which sticks to the rocky Canary Island shores. That goo captures plastic and debris from waves of ocean almost like “Play-Doh,” lead author ...

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.

This article investigates the Arctic Council’s new Agreement on the response to marine oil pollution in the Arctic Region. The Agreement is evaluated in the light of the challenges of responding to ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. , (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Great Lakes Coast Guard Center of Expertise wants to advance research on freshwater oil spills in its new location in Sault Ste. Marie. The ...

A security specialist in the Western Indian Ocean sees how countries work together to counter the threat of a massive oil ...

To stop ocean oil pollution from getting worse, Levine said policymakers should focus on reducing runoff from land-based sources like cars and roadways, in addition to shielding coastal fossil ...

The captain of the tanker suspected that 3,000-to-4,000 metric tonnes of intermediate fuel oil (persistent, thick oil that won't evaporate by itself) had spilled into the ocean.

While increased regulations and new policies have improved Southern California’s coastal waters, this month’s oil spill hints at the ongoing — and growing — vulnerabilities facing the ocean.