Sopping up South Korea's worst oil spill
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As locals, volunteers, and soldiers continue to clean a week after a 10,000-ton spill, some wonder if a faster government response could have mitigated the disaster.
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To save costs, a global oil company dumped toxic waste on the doorstep of some of the worldÂs poorest people, spreading illness and killing eight.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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With 24-foot seas and 50-knot winds continuing to pound the Aleutian island where a soybean freighter cracked in half, officials Saturday could take only a few small steps toward cleaning up the massive oil spill left behind.
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South Korea has extracted gas hydrate &#151; an alternative fuel source Seoul hopes might help reduce its heavy dependance on oil imports &#151; in its eastern territorial waters, a news report said Sunday.
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Kansas officials said on  Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant  oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging  floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the  state.
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Work starts to clean up a beach after 300 gallons of heating oil leaks from a tanker, leaving two people needing medical help.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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Oil and gas spilled during recent sabotage attacks on Iraq&#39;s southern oil pipelines ignited Sunday and firefighters battled to douse the flames.
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The oozing oil slick that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan desperately swims away from finally has caught up with him. It turns out Mr.
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Petroleum spas are making an unlikely return in a country so awash in oil these days that people are swimming in it.
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Egyptian authorities began cleaning up what remains of a 1,500-ton oil slick caused by a tanker collision in the Mediterranean on Monday, an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick
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SEOUL -- By some accounts, it was a disaster of biblical proportions that afflicted North Korea in July.
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Environment officials assess the damage after 300 gallons of heating oil leaks from a tanker in a coastal town.