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

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 Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began nearly 15 years ago may have had a larger impact on offshore ecosystems than ...

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea have announced a regional emergency after oil was detected on the coast ...

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

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.

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

"We can expect the number of injured cetaceans to increase in much greater numbers than usual in the coming months." ...

Emergency workers clean up the beaches of the Black Sea in southern Russia following an oil spill which occured on December 15. Russia's Delfa centre, which rescues and provides rehabilitation for ...