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.

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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 ...

Less harsh winds have made it possible for firefighters to more easily fight the fires, AcuWeather reported. There was no major fire outbreak in Los Angeles on Wednesday and most of the red flag fire ...

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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 ...