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

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

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, small oil slicks were recorded on the coast of the municipality of Cacongo, in Cabinda province, following an alleged rupture of an oil pipeline.The ...

The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves ... said in a technical note. "A small number of ...

LIMA, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Peru's government on Thursday declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil ... clean-up brigades from the moment of the spill and ...

But it is nonetheless disturbing that the agency established to clean up crude oil spill contamination in Ogoni, Rivers State, has gulped almost $1 billion without much to show for it. As the AP ...

SHAH ALAM: Oil spill clean-up operations, following an accident involving a tanker carrying palm oil at KM27.9 of the Kuala Lumpur-Karak Expressway, were completed last night. In a statement ...

Oil from two ageing ... ministry released photos of clean-up work on a beach in Krasnodarskiy Kray, east of Crimea. President Vladimir Putin has called the tanker spills an "ecological disaster".

Volunteers helping to clean up the oil spill on Russia's Black Sea coast had reportedly been calling for Putin to provide more assistance. Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that he ...