Emergency response, including the coastguard rescue, lifeboats and firefighting helicopters have been called into action ...

A local port or harbour authority, which often has its own counter-pollution equipment, has a duty to respond within areas they control, sometimes with the help of an oil spill response contractor.

UK seas suffered nearly 700 oil and chemical spills in the last 12 months - a total of nearly 102,000 kg of toxic pollution, a new interactive map has revealed. Chronic oiling is linked to a wide ...

This image relates to a paper that appeared in the ... and colleagues was titled, "Crude Oil Impairs Cardiac Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Fish." ...

The British environmental group Oceana has created an interactive spill map that lets users track oil and chemical spills in real time. Developed for the Ocean Alliance Against Offshore Drilling ...

The crash between a tanker and a cargo ship happened in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast. The search has now been called off for one member of crew missing from the cargo ship named the ...