Switzerland’s top criminal court convicted a multinational company for the first time, ruling against commodities trader Trafigura in a case of bribery linked to lucrative oil industry contracts in ...

Nikki Fried was reelected Saturday as chair of the Florida Democratic Party, which is seeking to regain relevance in a state ...

Water is having to be brought in by truck, and the normally bustling tourist town of Tullah on the West Coast is ‘very quiet’ after a popular lake was shut to the public due to an oil spill.

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being damaged in a storm. The spill prompted Russian authorities to declare a ...

All of Lake Rosebery at Tullah is closed to the public and will remain closed while investigations into the source and type of oil involved in the spill are ongoing, with the environmental ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15, a facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru ...

Hydraulic oil spilled at 11:40 a.m. Wednesday from a drill on a vessel that was boring into the seabed in Oura Bay, according to a coast guard news release on the same day. The vessel was working ...

For many years, Baltic Sea countries have been using a rather surprising product to help prepare strategies to tackle an oil spill — popcorn. The puffed-up kernels can simulate the properties of ...

After 1,100 litres of oil spilled onto their property, the Waite family was hit with a $345,000 cleanup bill and a lien on their home. They assumed they had insurance coverage in the event of an ...