President Donald Trump recently made headlines after claiming he wanted the United States to take over both Greenland and the Panama Canal. Lost in the controversy surrounding these proclamations is ...

However, the ban includes a transitional arrangement that gives shipping companies time to adapt while simultaneously protecting the Arctic from oil spills. It allows ships with protected fuel ...

“Ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon will mean more catastrophic oil spills,” Monsell said. “A spill in the Arctic would be impossible to contain and clean up. Polar bears and other endangered ...

Part of Russia's Pacific island region of Sakhalin is on high alert after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest ...

Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a long, expensive process, and the damage to a coastal region's ecosystem can be ...

In the absence of adequate technology to respond to an Arctic oil spill, and uneven regulations for oil and gas projects, Mikhail Babenko, Oil and Gas officer for WWF, says energy companies must take ...

While these circumstances could well be considered a failure of sorts, they could just as easily be seen as par for the course, as the extraction of Arctic oil and gas ranks among the most expensive ...

Arctic marine conditions contribute to an oil spill “response gap” that effectively limits the ability to clean up after an oil spill. A new report commissioned by WWF and released today concludes ...

We’ve learned to live sickly.” Plaintiff Rosemary Ahtuangaruak successfully advocated for more than a dozen tribal resolutions opposing the use of dispersants in the spill-response plans for the ...

The aftermath of a Russian oil tanker splitting in half because of a storm was caught on camera as the ship began to sink and oil spilt into the Black Sea. Trinidad Oil Spill 'Not Under Control ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill ... Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama administration approves Arctic drilling ahead of ...

Oil spill-sniffing dogs provide a proven new tool ... the companies could use the results as dubious cover to pursue risky Arctic drilling plans. More than a decade later, U.S. President Donald ...