They're the hulking hardware of a fossil fuel industry being blamed for climate change. But now scientists have discovered that North Sea oil rigs are being used as migratory stop-off points by ...

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. There were thousands of ...

In March 1980, the Alexander Kielland oil platform capsized in the North Sea after a support brace snapped from a cracked weld that engineers had already flagged as weak. Within 30 minutes, the ...

In the North Sea — between the United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark — thousands of flies swarmed an oil rig. Engineer Craig Hannah noticed... Why thousands of flies are on an oil rig in the middle of ...

A study of migratory hoverflies on a North Sea oil rig has revealed their vital role as long-distance pollen transporters. Researchers studied 121 marmalade hoverflies that landed on an oil rig in the ...