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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A clean-up is continuing in Tasmania's north-west after thousands of litres of oil spilled into Lake Rosebery after heavy rainfall on January 12, with swimming and other activities prohibited.

Oil has spilled for weeks in Nigeria’s delta region from a well apparently damaged by thieves and which has also sparked a fire that has yet to be contained, environmental activists said Tuesday.