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.

"While the bags wait to finally be collected storms arrive and they end up back in the ... illusions it will stay clean," he said, calling for quick action. The oil spills may have killed 21 ...

volunteers said that local authorities in Russia’s Krasnodar region did not have the means to clean up the oil spill. “Local authorities are not coping, they do not have the resources for this.

For many years, Baltic Sea countries have been using a rather surprising product to help prepare strategies to tackle an oil ...

Thousands of oil spills in ... allowed to clean up spill sites, 21 had no relevant experience. Not one was judged competent enough to handle more polluted sites. They include Nigerian construction ...

More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted ... has been inadequate as they grapple with the oil spill. Some said they experienced ...

Putin Says More Needs to Be Done to Clean up Black Sea Oil Spill MOSCOW (Reuters ... The oil leaked from two ageing tankers after they were hit by a storm on Dec. 15 in the Kerch Strait.