He and other volunteers were tasked with shoveling away the oil-drenched sand, but “the scale is just too big,” he said. Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the spill ...

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 ...

Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine warned of "terrible environmental consequences" from the spill. Heavy fuel ...

Oil spill-sniffing dogs provide a proven new tool that can overcome “many of the drawbacks of previous technology-driven solutions” and results that often provided “uncertain answers,” he ...

This Sisyphean cleanup is a result of a mid-December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught ... mitigate damage from the spill. The following day, a new leak began on the stranded ...

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend, the second such incident in 10 days. The spill occurred just more than a mile ...

The ecological disaster involving two aging Russian tankers off Crimea is escalating, with the oil spill spreading to the beach, Russian authorities have confirmed ...