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.

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 ...

Scientists have created massive fire tornadoes that could offer a faster and cleaner solution to the ongoing challenge of cleaning up offshore oil spills. These towering, tornado-like flames burn ...