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.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources has received a response from the United Nations Environment ...

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

resulting in thousands of tons of low-grade fuel oil called mazut spilling into the Kerch Strait. A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tons of oil left in ...