Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest oil spill in years, which has befouled some of the country’s most popular beaches.

The Environmental Defense Center works to prevent Sable restart of offshore oil drilling over safety and climate concerns.

ATHENS (Reuters) - A risky operation to salvage an oil tanker attacked by Houthi militants in the Red Sea and avert what could have been one of the largest oil spills in recorded history has been ...

Ukraine blames Russia for the spill, calling it the biggest Black Sea oil spill in the 21st century amid sanctions. Oil that leaked from two stricken tankers off the Russian coast has been detected on ...

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 ...

Oil from two ageing and damaged Russian tankers was detected Friday off the coast of Sevastopol, the largest city in Moscow ... Putin has called the tanker spills an "ecological disaster".

The faulty pipe connection that caused the spill was installed in the 1970s, the pipeline operator said in a Jan. 10 report.