The Electronic Dolphin is a small robot developed by engineers from RMIT University in Australia to test an innovative method for cleaning oil spills from the ocean. It is a remote-controlled ...

Credit: Peter Clarke/RMIT University/Cover Images Engineers have built a tiny “sea creature” robot that hoovers up oil spills using a filter inspired by sea urchins. Researchers at RMIT University in ...

The materials science research team from the University of Texas at Austin is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for developing a faster and more efficient system to clean up oil spills and ...

Oil spills in oceans can spell disaster for ecosystems, but options for mitigating them are limited and can come with their own environmental challenges. A new "fire tornado" from Texas A&M University ...

Baltimore Gas and Electric successfully pilots a device that filters out oil in a hydrocarbon spill, so water can be safely discharged into the environment. The decanter allows the water to be either ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

On March 24, 1989, just after midnight, a massive oil tanker ran aground in one of the most pristine marine environments in ...

Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean up after and can cause catastrophic ecological damage — and there are ...

Traditional cleanup methods, like skimming or burning on the surface, often work slowly or produce thick smoke that creates ...