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

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

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

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being ...

Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 tankers carrying fuel oil wrecked in the Kerch Strait on December 15, causing a fuel leak. According to the Russian Transport Ministry, four tanks with petroleum ...

Heavy fuel oil has been washing up on hundreds of kilometers of ... clean-up operation posted videos on social media of believers wading into the sea off Anapa in the pitch black to take the Epiphany ...

The oil spilled from two wrecked Russian tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia.

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 ...

A clean-up is continuing in Tasmania's north-west after thousands of litres of oil spilled into Lake Rosebery after heavy rainfall on January 12, with swimming and other activities prohibited.