Birds were found covered in oil on the Refugio beach. — -- Two days after a ruptured pipeline leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of oil off the California shore, wildlife -- including pelicans -- ...

HELPING OUT AS WELL. SO THIS IS A GOSLING AND IT’S COVERED IN OIL. IT’S ALL HANDS ON DECK ALONG THE INNER HARBOR AS CREWS WORK TO CLEAN UP THE OIL SPILL AND SAVE WILDLIFE. THAT INCLUDES MARYLAND’S ...

The island nation of Mauritius was plunged into an environmental crisis after a wrecked Japanese ship has spilled tons of oil into the sea, baby elephants took part in a naming ceremony at the ...

It is too early to understand fully what environmental damage has been caused after a cargo vessel crashed into the oil tanker off the coast of Yorkshire. But the high speed of the collision and ...

ON BOARD THE ARCTIC SUNRISE: I’ve always wanted to write that. I’m currently off the Dry Tortugas south of the Florida Keys, on board a Greenpeace ship. I’m here with a pair of marine biologists from ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons (500 million liters) of crude gushing into the ocean, the ...

MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday, as ...

The ocean covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but scientists say we have barely scratched the surface of what lives in our seas. But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing ...

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local volunteers complain that the government is interfering with their clean-up ...

Over the past month, the popular Black Sea resort beaches of Russia’s Krasnodar region have been transformed into a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi film, with thousands of workers in white hazmat ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Reporting from Istanbul When a 28-year-old volunteer named ...