Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

where state oil firm Petroperu last weekend spilled a crude oil shipment into surrounding waters of the Pacific Ocean. Alice Rizzo reports. Ukraine Captures First North Korean Soldier 9 songs ...

A sewage spill closed a portion of La Jolla Shores on Wednesday, the San Diego County Department of Environmental and Quality ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil ...

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas. At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope ...

The extreme weather phenomenon coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean ... state oil firm Petroperu on December 21 that sent 10,000 square meters of crude oil spilling into the ...

One sank and the other ran aground, pouring around 2,400 tonnes of a heavy fuel oil called mazut into the surrounding ... 32 of whom "most likely" died due to the spill. Cetaceans are a type ...

Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russia-installed governor of the city of Sevastopol, said new traces of ... 2,400 metric tons of oil products had spilled into the sea, a smaller spill than initially ...

A Charlottetown resident is calling on the P.E.I. government to do more to protect homeowners after reading about a recent oil ... into the soil. With no insurance coverage for the spill ...