Often the result of burst pipelines or damage to oil rigs and ships, oil spills can take months or years to clean up, while exposing people to toxic compounds and harming wildlife. Various methods ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new material from moss that could transform how we clean up oil spills. The team from Guizhou Education University modified sphagnum moss to absorb oil while ...

Chinese researchers have found a cost-effective solution to cleaning up toxic oil spills which can threaten wildlife and human health Chinese scientists have turned moss into an oil-absorbing material ...

Sustainable Sorbent Solution: FyterTech's Sustayn Line Upgraded ...

Nearly three and a half months after roughly 7,500 litres of diesel oil spilled into the ... To mitigate the effects of the spill, field crews deployed “sorbent” and containment booms at ...

The upgraded Sustayn sorbent pads and rolls retain their fast-absorbing, tear-resistant nonwoven construction, engineered to lock in oil, chemicals ... a wide range of spill containment products ...

Cancer-causing PAHs are formed during the incomplete burning of materials like coal, oil, gas ... the effects of the spill, Grieg Seafood said field crews deployed sorbent and containment booms ...

In the summer of 2010, panic spread across the region when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded​ in the Gulf.

One morning in early April 2024, Elías Naal Hernández set out with his fishing net to try his luck in the waters of Isla ...