According to Defenders of Wildlife, a US NGO, an oil spill in Alaska's North Slope could be the largest crude oil spill since drilling began in the area 30 years ago – second in Alaska only to the ...

prompting Southern California officials to race to contain the damage in one of the largest oil spills in recent memory. The spill reached the shores of Huntington Beach – 5 miles off the coast.

News that a Canadian-owned pipeline had what is considered the largest oil spill in Wisconsin history last month has raised concerns about another of the company's lines, which runs through the ...

Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest oil spill in years, which has befouled some of the country’s most popular beaches.

The MV Sounion is still intact, but may not be for long, and should it sink it could lead to one of the largest oil spills in history, nearly four times bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989.

More than 2 years following the largest oil spill the Gulf of Mexico has ever seen, scientists are still discovering consequences on the surrounding ecosystems. Most recently, researchers at the ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history. Russia has formed a new government commission to ...

It's a critical moment. ExxonMobil wants to restart offshore drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel, putting the California coastline at great risk of another massive oil spill. We’re not going to let ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A construction vessel leaked oil at the site of a future Marine Corps ... and an oil absorption mat to recover the spill, according to the release. Recovery work was ...