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 ...

(Credit: Getty Images) Major oil spills can be catastrophic for seabirds and marine life. Nearly 15 years on from the biggest marine spill in history, are we any better at cleaning up oil at sea?

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth’s surface to drill oil and construct wells) in the Gulf of ...