While officials insist that the fuel oil spill will soon be fully cleaned up, volunteers remain skeptical. As the Black Sea warms, oil that has been sitting on the sea floor will rise and wash ashore.

A massive Black Sea oil spill prompted Moscow's consumer watchdog on Friday to urge Russian holidaymakers to reconsider their summer plans, warning that the popular seaside resort of Anapa's beaches ...

The Black Sea area sits between Russia and the occupied Crimean peninsula. Anapa, a popular holiday town of some 80,000 people, was hard hit by the spill, which contaminated over 30 miles of beach.

More than 10,000 people have been working to shovel up the oil from beaches after a spill in the Black Sea in December. (Video: Reuters) ...

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When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast in a hazmat suit just before New Year’s Eve, he was so overwhelmed by the amount of thick oil ...

01/25/2025January 25, 2025 Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations due to the recent oil spill. Local volunteers, meanwhile, have complained that the ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history as the Kremlin continues to assess the full scale of ...

MOSCOW: Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday (Jan 10), as authorities ...

Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine warned of "terrible environmental consequences" from the spill.By trying to ...