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

December incident in which two aging oil tankers were caught in a storm and broke in half in the Kerch Strait, spilling 2,500 ...

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

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

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

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

Any danger of the oil reaching Bulgaria is speculation, the tourism minister said. SOFIA - Following a significant oil spill ...

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the aggressor country of russia announced the discovery of 17 new sites on the Black ...

MOSCOW, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than initially thought, the Transport Ministry said on ...

The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float. The ...

The Russian government declared a federal emergency in response to the oil spill. Cleanup efforts have involved around 8,500 ...

Advertising Russian officials originally claimed that the spill was contained, but soon after the disaster, sightings of floating oil and tarred birds were reported all along Russia’s Black Sea ...