Maritime intelligence firm detects a second suspected oil slick near Iran's Kharg Island as a larger spill moves toward Saudi Arabian waters.

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

Such harm could come in a number of ways. A strike on Kharg island has the clearest potential to cause a big, enormously ...

A breakthrough for science and a setback for workplace safety manuals.

Over the past couple of weeks, Tuapse has been hit by a series of three Ukrainian drone strikes targeting its refinery, one of the largest in Russia. The attacks, aimed at hurting Russia’s oil ...

State documents show a contractor has recovered dozens of oil-covered and injured animals after the Smitty’s Supply Inc. environmental disaster in Tangipahoa Parish. Several others were found dead on ...

More than 70,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the Sea Empress tanker after it ran aground near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire in February 1996 When the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground 30 ...

- Atlantic Empress and Aegean Captain, 1979: The two Greek-registered tankers collide and catch fire off Tobago in the West Indies, spilling an estimated 287,000 tonnes of crude. Thirty sailors die. - ...