Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

"We can expect the number of injured cetaceans to increase in much greater numbers than usual in the coming months." ...

Russia claimed Ukraine had launched a failed bid to recapture the island but the UK says the battle is not over This tiny, rocky outcrop in the north-west of the Black Sea was seized by Russia on ...

Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting for control of the Kozatskyi and Kruhlyk islands, which are located at the river's mouth, where it empties into the Black Sea. This operation is ...

The Big Island of Hawaii has several black sand beaches that are popular tourist destinations. Some notable ones include ...

With charming houses stacked up around two natural harbors, the pretty Black Sea port town of Amasra is ... a narrow strip of mainland to an offshore island, connected by the Boztepe Arch bridge.

Snake or Zmiinyi Island is a fraction of a square kilometre in size and there are no more snakes to speak of. But there can be no doubt of its importance for control of the western Black Sea.

Russia and Ukraine have completed a prisoner swap, repatriating more than 300 prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the ...