CARACAS, Venezuela — The sun had risen over the Caribbean Sea when Frank González spotted "the stain" — an oil slick on the water that stretched for miles.

Concerns over spills in the Flint River have one University of Michigan-Flint (UM-Flint) professor taking action.

Here is a list of big oil spills in California since the huge 1969 spill off Santa Barbara that is credited for being a major catalyst for the modern environmental movement.

Canada's TC Energy Corp shut its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas, the largest crude spill in the United States in ...

A leak of thousands of barrels of crude oil into a North Dakota field from a pipeline operated by Tesoro Logistics LP late last month is the latest in a string of recent pipeline accidents that ...

A recent report called “The shadow of oil” revealed that 474 oil spills occurred along the NorPeruano Pipeline in Peru and on several oil blocks between 2000 and 2019.

Recent oil spills in Russia and Mauritius have shown that the industry needs better ways to clean up accidents. Researchers are working on solutions: oil-absorbing wood chips, a solar-powered ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the 1990s to the one from 2010 through 2019, according to a ...

In recent years, experts have been developing better tech to combat this issue. Technology for cleaning up oil spills The following seven innovations have been in development for years.

The recent oil spill off the island of Mauritius has brought the dangers of moving large quantities of oil by sea back under the spotlight. The Japanese-operated MV Wakashio ran aground off the ...

For decades, I responded to oil spills as part of my job at NOAA. With incoming cuts, our abilities to do this crucial work is being hit hard, explains this guest columnist.

Amnesty International is blaming two oil giants for more than 500 oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2014. The area has been mismanaged for decades. Could the upcoming election bring a solution?