The Black Sea area sits between Russia and the occupied ... involved 10,000 people shoveling and scooping blackened sand and polluted water. Moscow declared a federal state of emergency in mid ...

The wreck of two tankers in the Black Sea on December 15 resulted in the ... A total of 147.6 metric tons of polluted sand and soil has been collected and removed," the ministry reported.

Emergency services reported that the vessels were carrying a combined total of about 9,200 tons of petroleum products, which spilled into the Black Sea.

According to the russians, the length of the new sites of oil pollution is 63 kilometers ... According to the russian authorities, cleaning the Black Sea coast from fuel oil may take at least several ...

According to the operational headquarters of Rusia's Krasnodar region, more than 1,200 birds were rescued and more than a thousand have already been transferred to rehabilitation centres and zoos ...

On Thursday, Kurenkov said that only 15 percent of the necessary work in relation to the pollution of the Black Sea coast had been carried out. Now that a federal state of emergency has been ...

Volunteers helping to clean up the oil spill on Russia’s Black Sea coast are appealing to Russian ... warning that the scale of the pollution will have an international impact.

Authorities in Russia’s Volgograd region and the Republic of Tatarstan have signed at least 14 government contracts for organizing “health and recreation” trips for children to the Black Sea resort ...

British holidaymakers have been warned about visiting nearly 50 'black flag' beaches ... directly into the sea every day, equivalent to 17 Olympics swimming pools of polluted water.