Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to establish a headquarters to manage the aftermath of the tanker accident in ...

Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine ...

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticised the clean up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new task force to take over the operation, almost four weeks after the spill ...

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

The president emphasized that this issue must not be overlooked at today's meeting and asked Russian Emergencies Minister Alexander Kurenkov to report on the situation, outlining the steps to be taken ...

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

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 ...