by Puwaner Guo, D. Jordan Bouchard and Amy Bilton, University of Toronto. Testing of two polyurethane foams as absorbants for oil spill remediation is examined, and a surface treatment to enhance oil ...

MYRTLE BEACH — The World's Largest Rubber Duck arrived to Myrtle Beach just as quickly as it left. After being inflated to a six-story height on May 8 in the Burroughs and Chapin Pavilion ...

Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central America were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles Goodyear "stabilized" the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research ...

Port Harcourt—A fresh oil spill has been reported in Ikata community, Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State with attendant massive destruction of crops in the surrounding environment.

What's next: Water quality needs to be tested to meet acceptable standards for swimming. After the spill, Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley issued a statement saying, “my office continues ...

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the ...

where the spill from CJ Bio America occurred. The company noticed the byproduct from manufacturing lysine had leaked into a stormwater drain, which staff blocked with a berm that they later ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — The Unified Command, consisting of the Coast Guard, recovered more than 9,400 gallons of oil from an oil and natural gas spill in Plaquemines Parish that was discovered ...

Legislation tabled in the National Assembly on Monday allows for the establishment of a National Oil Spill Committee to guide policy and ensure strong coordination of Guyana’s oil spill ...

which is next to the highway curve where the spill took place. He said that they could see only flashing lights for much of the day; a hill obscured the view. Mr. Caviness said, “We were joking ...

“Right here is Victoria and Ross, American bald eagles. They were brought back to us in 1989 due to the unfortunate oil spill in the Exxon Valdez spill,” said Dubacher. The Exxon Valdez oil ...

MARION COUNTY, OHIO, Ohio — A bicyclist is dead after being struck by a pickup truck in Marion County Monday afternoon, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The crash happened at 4 p.m ...