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

December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught in a storm and broke in half in the Kerch Strait, spilling 2,500 ...

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

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

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 ...

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 ...