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 head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in the Black Sea.

In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, rescuers and ...

Russian officials have revised their estimates of the oil spill in the Black Sea, now reporting that approximately 2,400 metric tons of oil products were released, a reduction from initial figures.

Russian occupation authorities in Crimea have detained 218 people (including 132 Crimean Tatars), escalated militarization with strategic deployments, all amidst an ongoing ecological disaster from a ...

Authorities in Crimea have declared a regional emergency after oil from storm-damaged tankers reached the shores of ...

Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, ...

Most of the more than 30 dolphins killed in a Russian oil spill in the Kerch Strait were from the endangered Azov species.

Dead dolphins continue to wash ashore.

Two oil tankers were damaged during a storm in the Kerch Strait, causing a major oil spill along the Russian coastline. The spill has contaminated dozens of kilometers of coastline, threatening ...

described the oil spill as a “large-scale environmental disaster” of the war and called for additional sanctions on Russian tankers. “The accidents on two rusty vessels in the Kerch Strait ...

Oil from a huge spill is now reaching the shores of the Kerch Strait, and environmental groups are fearing the worst. The accident has also drawn attention to Russia's aging fleet of unregulated ...