Oil spill clean up

An oil spill off the southeast coast of Mauritius has been declared an state of environmental emergency. A ship ran aground on a reef near Blue Bay.

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!

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...

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.

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

The Santa Barbara oil spill is going to kill a lot of animals. A lot.

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!

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....

Use these smart hacks that they use industries to prevent you from getting hurt when oil is spilled on the floor. #cleaning #cleaningtips #cleaninghacks #howtoclean #hometips #homehacks #housekeeping #houskeepinghacks #hacks #lifehacks #tipsandtricks

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.