The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean's surface, and orangey-red containment booms all looked out of place on the white sand of Mombasa's touristy Nyali beach.

More than 50 years since the oil spill near Santa Barbara, a look back at one of the worst ecological disasters in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Darin Rosas fell asleep one foggy night to the sound of waves crashing at nearby Ocean Beach. He awoke to news that an oil spill from a gashed cargo ship was staining the coastline he ...

Marine and coastal ecosystems play a critical role in the health of the ocean and the planet, but their delicate balance must be maintained. One of the major threats to this balance comes from oil ...

Rush says ocean can take care of itself. May 3, 2010— -- Scientists and environmentalists scoffed at Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that the ocean would clean up itself following a devastating ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing ...

SAN DIEGO — A one-of-a-kind boat designed in San Diego is looking to make the ocean a cleaner place and revolutionize how oil spills are cleaned up. Ben Gurfinkel is a Holocaust survivor and ...

Nearly every area of Alaska’s oceans are proposed for drilling. Oil spills there would threaten polar bears, walrus and bowhead and beluga whales, along with coastal communities dependent on healthy ...

Kate Sullivan de Estrada receives funding from Research England’s Policy Support Fund allocation to the University of Oxford via the Public Policy Challenge Fund. Her project under the Fund is titled ...