Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tonnes of oil left on board a tanker that ran aground last year in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...