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 ...

More than 10,000 people have been working to shovel up the oil from beaches following an oil spill in the Black Sea in ...

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 ...

The faulty pipe connection that caused the spill was installed in the 1970s, the pipeline operator said in a Jan. 10 report.

Rough waters and high winds were complicating efforts to clean up a recent oil spill off the coast of California, state officials said Saturday.

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.

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".