With the Deepwater Horizon disaster emphasizing the need for better ways of cleaning up oil spills, scientists are reporting that unprocessed, raw cotton may be an ideal, ecologically friendly answer, ...

As long as industry and infrastructure relies on oil to function, there will be spills. Cleaning up such disasters, like the recent Mayflower, Arkansasrupture, can be costly and time consuming. Even ...

MCX, the country’s largest commodity exchange, has launched Cottonseed Wash Oil futures, which will offer a robust price risk management solutions for the cottonseed oil industry. The new futures ...

Removing up to 95% of oil-spill of different densities — light and heavy oils — repetitively at least 100 times using superhydrophobic (extremely water repelling) medical cotton has been demonstrated ...