The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into ... and methane will lead to oxygen depletion. Oxygen depletion of bottom waters is a potentially significant concern, because deepwater ...

In a statement on Dec. 25, Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said the oil was still washing ashore and “has dragged on and does not stop” despite assurances from scientists that it would sink to the bottom. He ...

Two leaking oil wells from the 1940s have been plugged to prevent further oil spills into an Ottawa County lake.

Cleanup teams have been responding to oil spills along a coastline of almost ... but instead sinks to the bottom. “If it is not promptly removed from the surface, it remains to wait until ...

(AP) — An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black ... but sinks to the bottom or floats in the water column,” the ministry ...