A fuel oil spill from Russian tankers in the Kerch Strait has washed ashore near Odesa, according to ecologist Ivan Rusev.

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

A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovative technique that allows the ...

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

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

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A total of 32 dolphins have died since a Russian oil spill in the Kerch Strait three weeks ago. More Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP/Getty Images Previous oil spills in the Kerch Strait, such as the 2007 ...

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

Photos circulating on social media and local news channels showed seabirds coated in black fuel oil. The spill may have killed more than 20 dolphins, the local Delfa dolphin rescue centre said ...

Oil has spilled for weeks in Nigeria's delta region from a well apparently damaged by thieves and which has also sparked a ...