“The fuel spill source was immediately secured, and the fuel was 100 percent contained within floating booms around ... personnel positioned oil booms around the ship prior to refueling ...

"The coastal emergency and rescue team of the Azov-Black Sea Branch of the Marine Rescue Service gathered 225 kg of oily waste from the area along the coastline; 14,565 kg by cumulative total. Efforts ...

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

An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that’s proven far more challenging for humans and their machines: she sniffed out an oil spill submerged in water and ...

An oil spill in Nigeria's delta region has caused a fire that is yet to be contained. A subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited blames the spill on oil thieves. Accidents are ...

Work to contain an oil spill on a popular Tasmanian lake is underway, as the state's environment authority tries to understand the factors behind the event. About 30 kilometres of Lake Rosebery's ...

Truckloads of water are being delivered to a tiny town on Tasmania's west coast after a large oil spill contaminated its ... They are attending to booms installed to contain the oil leak, up ...

Crude oil prices were trending lower today and set to book their first weekly loss this year on expectations that President Donald Trump will boost global supply and depress prices. The latest ...

Oil spills are significant environmental disasters that can have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, shorelines, and coastal communities. The research surrounding oil spills focuses on ...

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 ...