In southwestern Russia, thousands of volunteers are cleaning up the beaches polluted by the sinking of two oil tankers in the ...

An oil slick caused when two Russian oil tankers were badly damaged in a storm in the Kerch Strait two days ago has reached the Russian Black Sea coast, a local leader said on Tuesday. Ulf Mauder/dpa ...

Oil from two Russian tankers, which sank and ran aground in the Kerch Strait after a storm in December, has spread 250 ...

Russian ships carrying tons of fuel oil sinking in Kerch Strait Earlier reports indicated that after the accidents involving ...

An oil slick of about 10 square kilometers has been recorded in the waters near the entrance to the Kerch Strait after the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticised the clean up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the spill ...

The thick oil slick on the water’s surface endangers the growth and development of marine life, both at sea and along the coastline. For example, oil sticks to a bird’s feathers, causing them to mat ...

The Russian government made the declaration after a number of its tankers were sank in the body of water between itself, ...

The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in the Black Sea.

When oil company, Shell D’Arcy first struck black gold in Nigeria in the 1950’s, there were celebrations in the creeks of the Niger Delta. Many of the locals had no idea what this thick black ...