Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

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

As seen in this week’s Russell Township blotter, police assisted firefighters on a call 8:14 a.m. Jan. 7 at Rescue Village ...

A Charlottetown resident is calling on the P.E.I. government to do more to protect homeowners after reading about a recent ...

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 many years, Baltic Sea countries have been using a rather surprising product to help prepare strategies to tackle an oil ...

Hydraulic oil spilled at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday from a drill on a vessel that was boring into the seabed in Oura Bay, according ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to ...

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

State police said a tanker rolled over on Route 9 south in Cromwell Monday night, causing 100 gallons of oil and diesel to ...

Lake Rosebery on Tasmania's west coast remains closed by authorities as they continue responding to a large oil spill from earlier this month. The Environment Protection Authority (EPA ...