On Jan. 15, 2022, more than 11,000 barrels of oil spilled into the ocean off the Peruvian coast. It flowed from a pipeline ...

A growing oil spill in the Humber Estuary has sparked concerns of an environmental disaster after an oil tanker and cargo ...

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Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of Britain after a cargo ship smashed into an oil ...

Environmentalists have raised the alarm after a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker off the East Yorkshire coast in the ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

A massive oil spill in Ecuador, in the northwestern Esmeraldas ... 14, with the mayor of the city of Esmeraldas, Vicko Villacis, stating that the “disaster is causing unprecedented ecological ...

A major rescue and oil spill containment operation is underway in the North Sea after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ...

In the 1967 oil disaster, the RAF and Royal Navy tried to reduce the size of the oil spill by haphazardly bombing the wreck to set it on fire - but the flames were repeatedly put out by the high ...

Unlike other spills, we may not see birds, other species, or habitats drenched in oil. But this still has the potential to be an environmental disaster - with both short and long term impacts ...

The jet fuel that has leaked from the tanker in the North Sea will cause a mass fish die-off, experts have warned, as the ...