Nigeria recorded at least 589 oil spills in 2024, according to data mined from the Oil Spill Monitor, a satellite tracker of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA). These are ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15 a facility of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru Local ...

Unthinkable!, declared Danilov-Danilyan at a press conference, referring to the fact that considerable amounts of still-present fuel oil are still in the sea and that residues of fuel oil will ...

Ukraine has called the oil spill “the largest in the Black Sea region in the 21st century” and blamed Moscow for using ships unsuitable for harsh winter conditions. Under Western sanctions ...

For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles ...

MOSCOW, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Russian investigators have determined that an oil spill from two tankers in the Black Sea last month was smaller than initially thought, the Transport Ministry said on ...

The ecological disaster involving two aging Russian tankers off Crimea is escalating, with the oil spill spreading to the beach, Russian authorities have confirmed ...

Peru’s state-owned company Petroperu was conducting last week pre-shipment manoeuvres with the Polyaigos vessel near the Lobitos district when the oil spill occurred. Petroperu said it acted ...

An emergency task force has arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region to deal with the continuing consequences of an oil spill in the Kerch Strait last month An emergency task force arrived ...

At least 3,700 tons of heavy oil were spilled when a storm caused one Russian oil tanker to split in half and the other to run aground. More than 10,000 workers have been mobilised to clean up the ...

On Dec. 26, it was reported that the occupation authorities in Crimea declared a federal state of emergency due to the fuel oil spill. Meanwhile, Crimean activists warned that the situation on the ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...