A 1.3-million-gallon spill of emulsion—a mixture of bitumen, water and sand—south of Fort McMurray in the Alberta oil sands of Canada is one of the largest the country has ever seen, regulators ...

Shell reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations ...

The Environmental Defense Center works to prevent Sable restart of offshore oil drilling over safety and climate concerns.

More than 2 years following the largest oil spill the Gulf of Mexico has ever seen, scientists are still discovering consequences on the surrounding ecosystems. Most recently, researchers at the ...

prompting Southern California officials to race to contain the damage in one of the largest oil spills in recent memory. The spill reached the shores of Huntington Beach – 5 miles off the coast.

Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest oil spill in years, which has befouled some of the country’s most popular beaches.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was the largest ever, spewing some 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf and creating an oil slick over 43,300 square miles, roughly the size of the ...

one of the largest marine oil spills ever recorded. Over several months, the spill released an estimated 134 million gallons of oil, extensively affecting marine and coastal species. This spill ...