The incident, experts said, showed that oil spills continue to pose yet another threat to the survival of the critically endangered African penguin, a species already on the brink of collapse.

He and other volunteers were tasked with shoveling away the oil-drenched sand, but “the scale is just too big,” he said. Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the spill ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15 a facility of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru Local ...

“no to oil spills.” “This is like the old story of the dog who chases a car and doesn’t know what to do when he catches it. The challenge is that there’s no way to effectively clean up a ...

However, in more recent updates, traffic officers had to warn that the lorry had suffered an oil leak which has delayed the re-opening of lane one. The clear-up effort has resulted in an hour of ...

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday after an oil spill in the ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts a very good dog. Her white, brown speckled nose has also made her ...

Water is having to be brought in by truck, and the normally bustling tourist town of Tullah on the West Coast is ‘very quiet’ after a popular lake was shut to the public due to an oil spill.