hair clippings may help fight off the devastating oil spill that is now creeping onto shores around the Gulf of Mexico: hair likes oil. A San Francisco-based nonprofit that has been collecting ...

Two local women have a plan to save the coastline by building booms with human hair scraps to absorb ... Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo, Ala. 59, Gulf Shores; Merrill Miller's Interiors, Canal Road ...

Already, 450,000 pounds have been shipped to the gulf area, where Coast Guard officials say they have not yet used the material. It’s hard to say who first thought of using hair to sop up an oil ...

feathers and nylons to create hair-stuffed booms to help contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Hair almost attracts oil, she said, similar to the way that human hair gets oily without a wash.

GULF SHORES, Ala. -- Work to repair some 1.1 miles of storm-flattened dunes along West Beach will conclude Thursday, city officials said. The project was begun in late May in an effort to bolster ...

Photo courtesy of Amanda Bacon Thanks, everyone, who helped with finding out more about those hair booms or mats folks are donating clippings for to help protect the Gulf Coast. BP says its ...

Matter of Trust will continue the hair collection after the Gulf is cleaned up and store it for use in some of 2,600 smaller spills that happen every year around the world, according to its website.

which is donating its hair clippings, top left, to be used in the Gulf oil spill cleanup. Feeling helpless about the Gulf Coast oil spill? Get a haircut. Barbershops and salons across the country ...