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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Your hair could help the Gulf Coast cleanup effort! As pressure mounts to stop the BP oil spill slick from spreading into the Gulf of Mexico, hair salons (of the human and pet variety) in Alabama ...

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 ...