MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in ...

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized Russian officials for their slow response to what he described as the country ...

The Black Sea is home to different cetacean species — some endangered — and it was the site of an oil spill in the middle of ...

The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank ...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday, faulted the clean-up of a major oil spill in the Black Sea and created a new ...

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.

Russian president emphasizes urgency of addressing oil spill after 2 oil tankers were damaged and 1 later sank in storm south ...

Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared ...

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been ...

MOSCOW. Jan 9 (Interfax) - The recent spill of fuel oil resulting from the wreck of tankers in the Black Sea is one of the most serious environmental challenges in years, Russian President Vladimir ...

Fuel oil spilled into the Black Sea by two storm-wrecked Russian tankers was washed ashore in southwestern Russia.

The Russian government made the declaration after a number of its tankers were sank in the body of water between itself, ...