They have been growing on subsea structures for decades but are now under threat as old platforms are decommissioned.

An owl that accidentally flew way off its course and ended up on an oil platform in the middle of the sea has now been ...

An owl has been saved from a North Sea oil rig after being blown nearly 200 miles off course by storm winds. The short-eared ...

An exhausted owl that was rescued after landing on a North Sea platform has been released back into the wild. The female ...

A short-eared owl, which found itself stuck on an oil rig after being blown off course during Storm Amy, is being looked ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. At such a critical ...

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig ...

Research from applied mathematicians at the University of California, Santa Cruz, presents new AI-powered methods for ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Extracting oil from the ocean floor requires a deep-sea rig setup with some of the most powerful machinery on the planet today: from motorized ...

You work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. And every day is a crapshoot at the bottom ...

David Callahan is one of a few hundred people who are deep-sea oil rig divers, and he can’t imagine doing anything else Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has ...