Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

The recent oil spill off the island of Mauritius has brought ... deliberately released eight million barrels of oil into the Gulf in a bid to foil a US-led attack. And in 2010, there was a major ...

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles ... Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply did not ...

A major oil spill could devastate the region’s fisheries, a key component of economies on both sides of the sea. (Prior to the outbreak of civil war in 2015, fish were Yemen’s second-largest ...

Only one dead piping plover has been collected, but oil pollution has soiled the imperiled plover's critical habitat on the Chandeleur Islands. Approximately 6,000 sea turtles have likely been harmed ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Last June, a report from the Initiative on Greenhouse Gas Accounting of War estimated that the war ... And now, a massive oil spill. Drill, baby, drill.

The ecological disaster involving two aging Russian tankers off Crimea is escalating, with the oil spill spreading to the beach, Russian authorities have confirmed ...

Filipino fishermen wearing protective suits collect oily waste along a beach in Pola Dozens of people have fallen sick in coastal villages in the Philippines after a major oil spill from a sunken ...

Officials say the spill polluted approximately 55 km of coastline. The two vessels carried a low-quality oil product known as mazut, commonly used in parts of the former Soviet Union for heating ...