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

More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being damaged in a storm. The spill prompted Russian authorities to declare a ...

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

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

On the night of Dec. 15, 2024, two Russian oil tankers, Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239, sank in the Kerch Strait, a narrow ...

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 due to the recent oil spill. Local ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday, as authorities ...

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

as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russia-installed governor of ...

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 ...