On March 18, 2025, an explosion occurred on the Trans-Niger Pipeline in Bodo, located inside the Gokana local government area ...

On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on British Petroleum’s offshore drilling rig (a machine that drills holes into the earth’s surface to drill oil and construct wells) in the Gulf of ...

In December 2024, Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic life and animals who lived near the shores of the sea. Unfortunately ...

Over a decade on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, could we do a better job at cleaning it up today? (Credit: Getty Images) Major oil spills can be catastrophic for seabirds and marine life.

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 ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency and order residents to ration drinking water.

Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest ever spill in U.S. history at the time. The nearly 1,000-foot namesake tanker carrying tens of millions of gallons of oil ...

On Jan. 15, 2022, the largest oil spill in Peruvian history occurred when a pipeline broke during the offloading of oil from a tanker to a refinery owned by the Spanish company Repsol. 11,000 ...

The Obololi community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has expressed their distress that no relief has been provided following the oil leak on February 16, which ...

Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador declared on Tuesday force majeure on its SOTE pipeline due to what it described as a landslide that provoked an oil spill, according to a statement from the ...

TOWN OF OAKLAND – About a mile west of Enbridge Energy’s Cambridge Pump Station, dozens of residents from the Town of Oakland expressed ongoing concerns over the Line 6 oil spill during a ...