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

Two Russian tankers carrying fuel oil broke up in the Kerch Strait in December, spilling fuel into the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. Russia has sent clean-up crews to some of the affected areas, ...

Russia's Delfa Dolphin Rescue and Research Center said the deaths are "most likely related to the fuel oil spill." The center said on the messaging app Telegram that a total of 61 dead cetaceans ...

A total of 32 dolphins have died in a Russian oil spill in the Kerch Strait between Crimea and Russia's southern Krasnodar region, an animal rescue group has said. Russia's Delfa Dolphin Rescue ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

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

(Courtesy: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition) Oil spills can pollute large volumes of surrounding water – thousands of times greater than the spill itself – causing ...

(Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via Associated Press) An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm ...

They assumed they had insurance coverage in the event of an oil spill, but were shocked to discover they didn't. Neevin Clow said the Waites' story left him worried about what kind of coverage he ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The Kerch Strait, which ...

and contractors installed an oil fence and an oil absorption mat to recover the spill, according to the release. Recovery work was successfully completed at 1:10 p.m. An investigation is underway ...