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

On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow ...

Russian scientists have detected dangerously high levels of a carcinogen in soil samples taken from beaches contaminated by ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

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

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations due to the recent oil spill. Local ...

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will help assess the damage from the russian fuel oil spill into the Black Sea that ...

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 ...

Two Russian tankers carrying fuel oil broke up in the Kerch Strait in December, spilling fuel into the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Russia has sent clean-up crews to some of the affected areas, ...

Advertising Russian officials originally claimed that the spill was contained, but soon after the disaster, sightings of floating oil and tarred birds were reported all along Russia’s Black Sea ...