Want to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in one month? Seaswarm says it can be done with 5000 floating robots. As the name implies, the project uses swarm robotics. Each unit draws power from ...

Authorities say that around 8,500 volunteers and emergency personnel are involved in cleaning up the oil spill, which occurred on Dec. 15 after a storm damaged two aging tankers carrying 9,200 ...

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles by 40 miles and was five inches thick in some places. Meanwhile Iraqi forces also blew up ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to deal ...