Russian president emphasizes urgency of addressing oil spill after 2 oil tankers were damaged and 1 later sank in storm south ...

The president noted that the relevant authorities are not doing enough to minimize the damage from the emergency ...

According to previous reports, almost 140,000 metric tons of oil-contaminated sand and soil have been removed from the shoreline as part of the cleanup effort ...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized Russian officials for their slow response to what he described as the country ...

MOSCOW. Jan 9 (Interfax) - The recent spill of fuel oil resulting from the wreck of tankers in the Black Sea is one of the most serious environmental challenges in years, Russian President Vladimir ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, ...

The oil spill in the Black Sea that has hit Russian and Crimean coasts since mid-December is particularly hard to clean up because it involves a "heavy" fuel that is less likely to float.

The Black Sea is home to different cetacean species — some endangered — and it was the site of an oil spill in the middle of ...

"We can expect the number of injured cetaceans to increase in much greater numbers than usual in the coming months." ...

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been ...

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea have announced a regional emergency after oil was detected on the coast ...