£1000 up for grabs as school teams battle it out in engineering competitionBromsgrove StandardA PRIZE of £1,000 is up for grabs as school teams battle it out to win the final of the institution of Engineering and Technology's engineering competition fo …

Oil ends lower for the session, down nearly 4% for the weekMarketWatchOil prices fell Friday to finish near a two-week low, pressured by growth in U.S. production and data showing a weekly climb in the number of domestic rigs drilling for oil. For the week …

Sucking up spilt oilEurekAlert (press release)Spilt crude oil has repeatedly polluted and even destroyed marine ecosystems. An effective measure would be to remove spilt oil slicks by absorption into a separable solid phase. As Indian scientists now report …

EurekAlert (press release)Russian researchers developed an ecological method for cleaning lakes from oil National Research Tomsk State UniversityEurekAlert (press release)The oil cleansing method was developed by TSU researchers and it is optimal for lake …

The NationalStemming the flow of ISIL oilThe NationalBEIRUT // The first year of coalition air strikes did little to disrupt operations at ISIL's most prized and profitable oil fields in eastern Syria. Thousands of trucks, undeterred by the bombing cam …

EurekAlert (press release)Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water?EurekAlert (press release)An expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels, Jackson has studied groundwater quality at oil and gas fields throughout the United …

EurekAlert (press release)Root microbiome engineering improves plant growthEurekAlert (press release)In their own labs, the authors--Ulrich Mueller of the University of Texas at Austin and Joel Sachs of the University of California, Riverside--have seen mi …

Live ScienceTar Balls from California Oil Spill Litter Beach in NASA PhotoLive ScienceSpotting dark, gooey and flammable tar on the beach — remnants from an oil spill in Southern California in May — just got a lot easier, thanks to NASA. The agency recentl …

RT​Oil price plunges after 'No' vote in Greece, impending Iran dealRTOil prices fell 7 percent on Monday in the worst single-day decline in three months after Greece's Sunday bailout referendum. Meanwhile, fears of oversupply have taken hold as …

Scientific AmericanHow BP's $18.7-Billion Oil Spill Settlement Could Help the Gulf of MexicoScientific AmericanOil company BP agreed on July 2 to pay US$18.7 billion to settle civil lawsuits over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexi …