The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank ...

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled ... Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded with oil.

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

The Black Sea is home to different cetacean species — some endangered — and it was the site of an oil spill in the middle of ...

Emergency workers clean up the beaches of the Black Sea in southern Russia following an oil spill which occured on December 15. Russia's Delfa centre, which rescues and provides rehabilitation for ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, Europeans on the western side of the Iron Curtain flocked to beaches during the summer, and many ...

Reasons to go — Black Sea beach resort towns like Albena, Golden Sands and Sunny Beach, ski hotspots like Bansko and Pamporovo, the city of Sofia and a complex history that has seen many ...

Russia continues to suffer military defeats in the strategically vital Black Sea, one of Moscow's most crucial avenues for political and economic influence into the Mediterranean and beyond. Newsweek ...

A video posted by Zvezda TV showed a black, oil-like substance along the coast at Anapa, and tarry stains along a beach strewn with ... dolphins and other sea mammals. "You can say they hit ...

Russia has declared a federal state of emergency over an oil spill in the Black Sea, which came after a tanker "split in half" during a fierce winter storm. The head of the Russian Emergencies ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the incident an "ecological disaster" as officials and volunteers attempt to clean ...