Eating oil

Fertilisers accelerate growth not only in plants but also in certain microbes that feast on oil

Huge slick

Oil on Tate’s face

Museum>> Oil ÔÇó London

Taxing time for Texaco

EXONERATED

Sugar coated pill for shell

Paradise threatened

Oil at sea

The forbears of BP’s recent oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico

Pollution in news on May 9

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution

Slick burning bright

Floating picket line

Disaster down the pipe

A major pipeline explosion exposes the danger posed by Russia's 140,000 km-long high pressure gaslines

COLOMBIA

ECUADOR

Sinking options

NIGERIA

Oily seas

Costly spill

Oil slick

IN FOCUS

Oil spoil

Misjudged

Slicky situation

Oil spill

Controlling oil spills