To date, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. The incident claimed 11 lives and released almost 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. More than a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars later, researchers are still trying to find out where all this oil ended up through a concept called environmental fate. Some of the most commonly... 

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers standing before the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima Prefecture, northern Japan. Researchers detect higher levels of radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster off North America’s shores. Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said on Thursday recent tests of Pacific Ocean water revealed... 

The elusive Omura’s whale has been documented for the first time ever by an international group of scientists, over a decade after the mysterious mammal was described as a new species. Previously, no living Omura’s whales had been observed in the wild, according to the study published in the Royal Society Open Space journal. Researchers confirmed that they are tracing the first-detected living... 

Radiation produced by the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has been confirmed off the coast of Canada, as the Japanese struggle to contain a number of leaks. The levels, however, are too low to pose a threat, scientists say. Trace amounts of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were discovered in samples collected on February 19 in the waters near Vancouver Island in British Columbia,... 

A common algae used in making fish food has been found to be a potential source for both biodiesel and jet fuel, according to a new study. Researchers exploited chemical compounds found in commercially-grown algal species, Isochrysis, to synthesize the two different fuel products in parallel, a study published in the Energy & Fuels journal said. “It’s novel…. It’s far from a cost-competitive... 

The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant plans to start cleaning underground tunnels believed to be part of the sources of radioactive materials poisoning the groundwater in the area. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) will first block the flow of tainted water between the damaged buildings and the tunnels. Workers will begin burying pipes in the ground to carry refrigerants...