The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.

The Black Sea is home to different cetacean species — some endangered — and it was the site of an oil spill in the middle of ...

The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared ...

In southwestern Russia, thousands of volunteers are cleaning up the beaches polluted by the sinking of two oil tankers in the ...

Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than ...

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been ...

Emergency workers clean up the beaches of the Black Sea in southern Russia following an oil spill which occured on December 15. Russia's Delfa centre, which rescues and provides rehabilitation for ...

At least 32 dolphins died in the Black Sea due to fuel oil spill caused by an accident involving two Russian tankers in the ...

Delfa Dolphin Rescue and Research Center says it found 61 dead cetaceans with over half killed 'likely due to fuel oil spill' ...

Fuel oil spilled into the Black Sea by two storm-wrecked Russian tankers was washed ashore in southwestern Russia.

Russia declared a regional state of emergency in Crimea on Saturday, January 4, 2024, after an oil spill in the Black Sea ...