The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in the Black Sea.

The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea warned on Wednesday there was a "high risk" the peninsula would suffer severe environmental damage from an oil spill in t..

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 ...

In southwestern Russia, thousands of volunteers are cleaning up the beaches polluted by the sinking of two oil tankers in the ...

Intense fighting is also taking place between Ukrainian and Russian troops in the key city of Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine.

Russian occupation authorities in Crimea have detained 218 people (including 132 Crimean Tatars), escalated militarization with strategic deployments, all amidst an ongoing ecological disaster from a ...

China's fuel oil imports are expected to slow down after the government increased import tariffs, putting further pressure on the already strained margins of independent refiners.

The state of Alaska is suing the Biden Administration, claiming that its decision to restrict acreage in an upcoming Arctic ...

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country interim chancellor following Karl Nehammer recent resignation from the post ...

Countdown to the 2025 Asian Winter Games -- 30 days to go!Let take a sneak peek at the stunning Harbin Ice-Snow World in northeast China and discover ...

Ukraine says it hit an oil depot inside Russia that served a strategic air base in the southern Saratov region in what appears to have been a strike with Ukrainian weapons.