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

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

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 ...

“On the eve of the UN conference on Oceans, UNEP is ready to provide Ukraine with technical assistance in assessing the ...

Fuel oil spilt from two ageing tankers that broke up in a storm in the Kerch Strait in December has affected some forty miles ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month ...

The fuel oil spilled by the Volgoneft-212 oil tanker, which crashed in the Kerch Strait on December 15, was intended for ...

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

A Russian official said a recent oil spill in the Black Sea was unprecedented and could have been avoided, highlighting the ...

MOSCOW. Jan 27 (Interfax) - The Russian government's reserve fund has allotted 1.5 billion rubles to mitigate the damage from the fuel oil spill following a tanker wreck in the Kerch Strait on ...

Fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers nearly three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, close to eastern Crimea — some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Sevastopol, which lies on the ...