September 16th, 2019 | by The Beam
Decades of oil spillage in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta and the incessant bickering over who should own up to the wanton environmental degradation has taken a toll on Nigeria’s economy, seeing it slid into recession with the delta being classified as one of the most polluted places on earth
May 5th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute
Oil spills don’t make the news very often unless they are big, like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, which killed 11 people and spewed an estimated 205 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But spills happen frequently. According to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there were 137 oil spills in 2018, about 11 per month
March 25th, 2019 | by Nexus Media
The impacts of the spill left an entire generation reeling from the impacts of oil pollution
November 28th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The latest US midterm is over — or nearly over — and Democratic candidates had a record wave of support from voters, but there's still plenty of misunderstanding to clear up. We've gone through decades of misinformation campaigns, gaslighting, and political dystrophy. One blue wave doesn't mean we've got everything in order. One topic I was recently inspired to address is a simple one, but one that seems to skate under the radar of public consciousness
December 11th, 2017 | by James Ayre
An investigation into the causes of the recent TransCanada Keystone pipeline oil spill on November 16 has raised serious questions about the widespread use of weights on pipelines, regulators have revealed. To be more specific, a report from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration stated that the recent Keystone oil spill in South Dakota may have been caused by a weight that was put in place during the construction of the pipeline back in
November 24th, 2017 | by James Ayre
South Dakota's environmental regulator has revealed that the cleanup process for the recent 5,000 barrel oil spill along TransCanada Corp’s Keystone pipeline will probably take several weeks — with the timeline for the restarting of pipeline operation as of right now being up in the air
September 11th, 2017 | by James Ayre
Now that a bit of time has elapsed since Hurricane Harvey tore a path of destruction along the coast of Texas, things have begun to get clearer as regards the fate of Houston's many petrochemical facilities
February 22nd, 2017 | by James Ayre
There were at least 6,648 spills (the number that were reported) at hydraulically fractured (fracked) oil and gas wells in the 4 US states of New Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania between the years 2005 and 2014, according to a new analysis published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology
May 21st, 2013 | by James Ayre
What’s the best way to clean up an oil spill? Using raw, unprocessed cotton to sop it up, apparently. New [&hellip
April 1st, 2013 | by Tina Casey
It was a deal that looked all but dead last year, but now Germany and Greece have formally agreed to [&hellip
December 16th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Here’s some more top news of the week (other than what we’ve published and what was included in our [&hellip
December 5th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Here’s some recent climate change, climate policy, and fossil fuel news for you, in case you missed it (a [&hellip
April 5th, 2012 | by Andrew
Advances in atomic-level isotope chemistry are leading to a leap forward in environmental and natural resource management as they spread from green research labs to industry and commerce
