In December 2024, Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic life and animals who ... around the world is affecting them.

Heavy fuel oil is horrible stuff. Cheap, thick and tar-like, it can smother animals and is extremely ... waves and currents affect how an oil spill spreads in the sea. Scientists can draw up ...

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery ... including determining the composition of a spill, but the group says it offers an ...

or habitats drenched in oil. But this still has the potential to be an environmental disaster - with both short and long term impacts - affecting everything from the smallest plankton to the ...

The report noted that initially, Repsol had said that only 0.16 barrels of crude oil had spilled, affecting ... from Repsol’s spill. Although the exact number of affected animals cannot be ...

Environmentalists have stressed an oil spill could pose a huge risk to marine life that live in the area. Whales, dolphins and birds, such as puffins, live in the area close to where the collision ...