Oil spill clean up

Have you started hearing, "I'm bored!" yet??? I thought that I would share a fun project that we did this year that can get "bored" kids ...

Try this oil spill clean up experiment with your students or kids! This is agreat one for Earth Day or anytime you want to teach about the environment!

Locals and environmental experts from the island nation of Mauritius are desperately trying to save their surrounding beaches and oceans from becoming an environmental catastrophe after the Japanese-owned MV Wakashio bulk oil carrier struck a coral reef off the coast on July 25.

Easy oil spill experiment for kids. Pour cooking oil over the top of water and experiment with different absorbent materials to try to clean it up.

What is the most absorbent material for cleaning up oil? Find out in this science project comparing the effectiveness of different sorbents in cleaning up oil spills!

A team from MIT have developed a new technique for "magnetically separating oil and water" that could be used to clean up oil spills. The method is said to be so efficient that the recovered oil can even be reused to offset the cost of the clean-up.

You take pride in how your home looks from the outside, which means that those oil stains on your driveway have got to go. Fortunately, with the right products and a bit of elbow grease, you can remove grease and oil spots in no time....

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Learn about the impact oil spills have on the marine ecosystem, then get hands on with an oil spill cleanup experiment for the science fair.

Seashells coated with oil caused by the oil spill are pictured by the shore

We all expect to do a little bit of routine maintenance on our cars. But few of us expect to do maintenance outside our cars, on the once-clean garage floor. Sadly, oil spills are part of owning a car. Luckily, they can eliminated with an...

Californias latest oil spill almost drained right into the Pacific

Six years after Deepwater Horizon spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we still have no idea what we're doing

New research is yielding oil dispersants that are non-toxic and prevent oil from sticking to birds and wildlife

We all expect to do a little bit of routine maintenance on our cars. But few of us expect to do maintenance outside our cars, on the once-clean garage floor. Sadly, oil spills are part of owning a car. Luckily, they can eliminated with an...

The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010 was both a human and an environmental catastrophe. Getting the spill under control was an enormous challenge. The main problem was the depth of the well, nearly 1,500 meters below the sea surface. It was a configuration that had never been tried before, and the pollution it unleashed after methane gas shot to the surface and ignited in a fiery explosion is also unequalled. Much research has been done since the spill on the effects on…

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Oil spills destroy earth's ecosystems.

Learn about ocean pollution with this easy oil spill experiment. Find out what oil spills do and how to clean them up.

On the 26th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, we look to the future of oil drilling leases in the Arctic Ocean.