Natural gas has become a go-to fuel for power plants from coast to coast, sometimes replacing dirtier coal-fired plants and, ...

"Our discovery sheds light on a previously unknown pathway by which oil can spread pollution inside the ocean." And the smaller an oil droplet is, the harder it is to clean up, he added.

speeding up the discovery of new species and uncovering how light pollution impacts marine life. Uncovering hidden oil spills Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively ...

Planning to dredge the Burrard Inlet to increase oil tanker loading capacity from 80 per cent to 100 per cent is officially ...

Environmental advocates are calling on Indiana to impose stricter pollution limits on BP's oil refinery in Whiting.

Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic pollution. The problem is growing into a crisis. The fossil fuel industry plans to increase plastic production by 40 percent ...

At Roger Williams Park Zoo, the penguins will eat 1 to 1½ pounds of fish daily over two or three feedings. They will be fed small herring, capelin, smelts, trout, minnows, sardines, anchovies and ...

Pollution can enter water directly, through both legal and illegal discharges from factories, for example, or imperfect water treatment plants. Spills and leaks from oil pipelines or hydraulic ...

People living in the oil patch, Schade said, faced “simultaneous exposure to air, water, noise and light pollution” that was hard for outsiders to fathom. Only those “actually living in the ...

Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively easily detected. When a tanker crashes or a pipe bursts, scientists know where to look. But smaller pollution events can appear ...