Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

Russian regional authorities are arranging summer vacations for disabled children at Black Sea resort destinations heavily ...

Any danger of the oil reaching Bulgaria is speculation, the tourism minister said. SOFIA - Following a significant oil spill ...

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

The Russian government declared a federal emergency in response to the oil spill. Cleanup efforts have involved around 8,500 ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in ...

Oil spill in the Black Sea contaminates beaches and threatens wildlife, amid little to no response from the Russian ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in ...

A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. Satellite ...