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

Tamar, a group dedicated to the protection of sea turtles, said the oil spills were “the worst environmental tragedy” it has encountered since its formation in 1980. The patches of oil began ...

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

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill ...

A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. "This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities," Viktor ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that will affect wildlife in the oceans and on the shores for a long time. But can microorganisms come to the rescue? bacteria constitute a ...

Speaking to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, a scientific director at the Russian Academy of Sciences, deemed an oil spill in the Black Sea to be the "worst ecological ...

You probably know that the 2010 explosion at Deepwater Horizon caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but how much do you really know about the accident's magnitude and effects?