Sarah Bedolfe, a marine scientist with ocean advocacy group Oceana, said those responsible for oil spills are on the hook for damages, so early spill estimates tend to be lower than final amounts.
Indian-made Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter has been deployed to tackle the Mauritius oil spill to extricate skimmed oil from a merchant vessel to a tug.
Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leaking from a grounded ship put endangered wildlife in further peril.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into the cause of an Arctic oil spill last week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday slammed the billionaire of a nickel company after a massive fuel oil spill that caused huge damage to an arctic region. On Wednesday, Putin declared a state of emergency in the region to help minimize the consequences of the spill.
"The fire was completely contained and extinguished," Secretary-General of Beheira Province Hazem al-Ashmouny told the Egyptian state TV, offering condolences to the families of the victims.
Six days after the oil spill off Chennai coast, over 2,000 personnel from different agencies Friday stepped up clean up efforts even as the Coast Guard believed it may take at least 10 days to
Indian Coast Guard and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board were among others coordinating the operation to remove the oil spill caused by Saturday's collision of two cargo ships in the sea off Chennai.
Ahmedabad: In view of the possibility of oil spill in the sea near Gujarat coast due to heavy traffic of ships, the State Forest and Environment department has decided to prepare a risk mitigation and
Dhaka: A UN expert team has arrived in Bangladesh to help clean up the Sundarbans, more than a week after it was hit by a huge oil spill from a capsized boat endangering the world's
United Nations: The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Friday asking Israel to pay Lebanon over $850 million in damages for an oil spill caused by an Israeli air force attack on oil
Kolkata: India has not been affected by a massive oil spill in the waters of Sundarbans delta on the Bangladesh side, forest department officials said."Our staff has been patrolling the bordering region for the last
Dhaka: Hundreds of people on Monday were hoping to avoid a major ecological disaster in Bangladesh by cleaning up by hand some of the 350,000 litres of oil spilled from a tanker that sank in
Mumbai, Aug 8 : MV Rak, the Panama-flagged cargo ship that sank off Mumbai on Thursday, started leaking oil late on Saturday night, and by Monday morning a large area of sea coast had oil
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday said the situation arising out of the oil spill following collision of two cargo vessels is completely under control as Coast Guard officials have plugged the leakages. "The
Terming the oil spill off the Mumbai coast as a "big disaster", the central government has said that it will not shirk from its responsibility and make every effort to clean the polluted water as
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