Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

Russia has continued to transport the commodity via an aging fleet whose links to Moscow are hidden, often through shell ...

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles ... Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply did not ...

A major oil spill could devastate the region’s fisheries, a key component of economies on both sides of the sea. (Prior to the outbreak of civil war in 2015, fish were Yemen’s second-largest ...

Only one dead piping plover has been collected, but oil pollution has soiled the imperiled plover's critical habitat on the Chandeleur Islands. Approximately 6,000 sea turtles have likely been harmed ...

The Red Sea is also a vital source of seafood, especially in Yemen, where fishing was the second largest export after oil before the current civil war between ... in the Texas Gulf Coast as ...

An oil tanker named Koala has been damaged near the Russian port of Ust-Luga in the Gulf of Finland, according to Russian media outlets Fontanka and Tass. Tass reported that the vessel is securely ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Gulf Shores residents and visitors will soon be able to visit critical habitat for the Alabama Beach Mouse and other species that use Little Lagoon, with construction of a new park getting ...