Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the largest ever ... In the year after the spill, tourism spending fell 8% in south central Alaska and by 35% in the southwest part ...

After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of the 20th century’s most remarkable economic success stories, becoming a developed, globally connected ...

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

A Louisiana island that provides critical nesting habitat for pelicans and other seabirds is being restored to nearly its former size after decades of erosion and a crippling 2010 oil spill.

Photo shows A motorcyclist wearing a helmet and two other men bending to pick up slabs of bitumen from a large roadway crack ...

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 ...

A person walks past houses destroyed by wildfires at a village in Yeongyang, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Yun Kwan-shik/Yonhap via AP) ...

UISEONG: Deadly wildfires in South Korea worsened overnight, officials said on Tuesday (Mar 25), as dry, windy weather hampers efforts to contain one of the country's worst fire outbreaks.

The US energy department put South Korea on a watchlist because visitors to its laboratories mishandled sensitive information, Joseph Yun, the acting US ambassador, said on Tuesday. The ...

South Korea is struggling to contain wildfires ravaging the country’s southeast after more than two dozen blazes broke out over the weekend, killing four people and forcing thousands to evacuate.

The equivalent of 8,864 soccer pitches were burning in Korea’s southeast as of Sunday; at least four people have died ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Sunday in a show of support, days after North Korea test ...