Russian tankers were responsible for a massive oil spill in the Black Sea. The result was a loss of aquatic life and animals ...

It is estimated that the spill harmed or killed thousands ... between 600 and 730 oil wells were set alight at the end of the Persian Gulf War as part of Operation Desert Storm.

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has ...

Since Islamist-led insurgents ousted Mr Assad in December, Israel has voiced concerns that the group could seize Syrian military assets and use them against it, or that instability could spill ...

The dataset contains the Gulf of Mexico oil spill area and the Persian Gulf oil spill area, acquired from the ALOS and Sentinel-1A satellites, respectively. It is a pixel-level dataset of oil spills ...

the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all crude oil traded worldwide passes. The area around the strait in the past has seen Iran seize commercial ships and launch suspected ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency amid "unprecedented" damage and to order residents to ration drinking ...

Ecuador declared an environmental emergency due to an oil spill near Esmeraldas River in the northwestern coastal province of the country. Ecuadorian authorities said that part of the Trans ...

President Jimmy Carter kept the oil-for-security arrangement alive even after the Saudis nationalized their energy industry in 1980, with a new foreign-policy doctrine that guarded Persian Gulf ...