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

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

Authorities in Russia’s Volgograd region and the Republic of Tatarstan have signed at least 14 government contracts for ...

The oil spill in the Black Sea, caused by damage to two Russian tankers in mid-December, also brought thousands of volunteers ...

Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

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 ...

A group of former American military officers and diplomats who served in Kyiv are teaming up with a Ukrainian winery owner to ...

A crew from Russia’s Marine Rescue Service siphoned away the remaining 1,488 tonnes of oil left in the grounded Volgoneft-239 ...