The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in ...

Compensation body says urgent checks are needed on insurance status of vessels suspected of being behind spills ...

This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM An international research team led by the University of Galway has charted the ...

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery of new species and uncovering how light pollution impacts marine life. Satellite imagery ...

Uncovering hidden oil spills Satellite imagery means large oil spills in the ocean are relatively easily detected. When a tanker crashes or a pipe bursts, scientists know where to look. But smaller ...

oil pollution incident," explained Mitchelle De Leon of US-based NGO SkyTruth. The group harnesses machine learning to comb through large datasets of satellite imagery and find spills that might ...