Cleaning up oil stains is among the top household nightmares for many, as they're notoriously stubborn. Still, some mishaps like spilling cooking oil on the kitchen floor can happen to the best of us.

Mussels may be popular among seafood lovers, but many boaters consider them pests. They colonize ship bottoms, clog water pipes and stick to motors. To chemical engineers, though, those very same ...

Forty-six days later, the oil spill is still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Depending on whose estimate you trust, somewhere between 22 million and 200 million gallons of oil are now in the water.

Nothing derails cooking faster than a slippery, shiny patch of oil on the kitchen counter or floor. One moment, you are frying onions for that perfect tadka, and the next, the oil has escaped its pan, ...

MATTAWA — People downstream of Priest Rapids Dam are being asked to look for evidence of oil on the waters of the Columbia River following a spill of mineral oil at the dam Wednesday. Department of ...

DESERT AIRE, Wash. - The Washington Department of Ecology and Grant PUD are addressing a spill at Priest Rapids Dam after ...

In early June, 83-year-old Charles Collins took stock of his homestead near Galeton, a small town in Weld County, just northeast of Greeley. He surveyed the horizon for thunderstorms while Dusty and ...

Boat launches are closed on the stretch of the Columbia River between the Vernita Bridge and Pasco following an oil spill at ...

A representative from Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Duluth (MSU) says that an oil spill in Duluth Harbor on Tuesday, September 2, has been cleaned up. MSU, in coordination with local partners, ...