Oil spills are inherently a bad deal for all involved, and have accounted for some of humanity’s biggest environmental ...

Researchers have run the first large-scale field test of deliberately generated fire whirls over crude oil floating on water, and the results challenge conventional thinking about oil-spill cleanup.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oil spills have a new whirlwind solution. Disasters like Exxon Valdez in 1989 and Deepwater Horizon in 2010 are difficult to clean ...

The science pros at TKOR reveal what a giant green fire tornado looks like in real life, combining combustion, airflow, and extreme pyrotechnics.

In the frantic hours following an offshore oil spill, emergency responders face a destructive decision: let the oil spread or ignite it. Once ignited, it creates an ‘in-situ’ fire pool that stops the ...

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The Dragon Bravo Fire has grown to over 111,000 acres, becoming the largest wildfire in the continental US in 2025. The fire is generating pyrocumulus clouds, which can create dangerous fire behavior ...

Utah isn’t exactly known for tornadoes. Since 2000, only two significant tornadoes had hit the Beehive State. But that changed last weekend, when a rare fire tornado brought destructive winds up to ...

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 ...