A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

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

Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the oil spill, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest ...

(AP) — An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait ...

Work to contain an oil spill on a popular Tasmanian lake is underway, as the state's environment authority tries to understand the factors behind the event. About 30 kilometres of Lake Rosebery's ...

Oil spills are significant environmental disasters that can have devastating effects on marine ecosystems, shorelines, and coastal communities. The research surrounding oil spills focuses on ...

A Charlottetown resident is calling on the P.E.I. government to do more to protect homeowners after reading about a recent ...

For many years, Baltic Sea countries have been using a rather surprising product to help prepare strategies to tackle an oil ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

An ongoing oil spill at a wellhead and subsequent fire in Buguma community in Nigeria's coastal Rivers state has entered its fourth week, with no immediate action taken by authorities or operators to ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that’s proven far more challenging for humans and their machines: she sniffed out an oil spill submerged in water and ...