On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in ...

Approximately 3 million gallons (10,000 metric tons [tonnes]) of oil or refined petroleum product 1 are spilled into the waters of the United States every year (NRC, 2003). This amount represents the ...

Oil spill research has rapidly evolved into a multidisciplinary field that examines the sources, dispersal, environmental fate, and long-term ecological impacts of accidental releases. The breadth of ...

The lack of government transparency accentuates the effects of a natural disaster that has covered over 140 miles of coastline and endangered the livelihood of coastal communities ...

HELPING OUT AS WELL. SO THIS IS A GOSLING AND IT’S COVERED IN OIL. IT’S ALL HANDS ON DECK ALONG THE INNER HARBOR AS CREWS WORK TO CLEAN UP THE OIL SPILL AND SAVE WILDLIFE. THAT INCLUDES MARYLAND’S ...

NEW ORLEANS — This Sunday, WWL Investigates returns with a powerful new episode looking back at the BP oil spill and the fight over safety regulations that followed. In the third installment of “WWL ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, at the time the nation's largest oil spill.

NEW ORLEANS — WWL Louisiana is diving even deeper into the story of the BP oil spill, one of the worst environmental disasters in history, with the second installment of its new investigative series, ...

The Agge community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have cried out following massive spills at the Bonga Oil Field reportedly operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Transport and Fate." National Research Council. 2005. Oil Spill Dispersants: Efficacy and Effects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11283. surface ...