A commercial fishing vessel that sank Saturday near San Juan Island, Wash. is spilling oil, the U.S. Coast Guard said.All five crewmembers from the sinking Aleutian Isle were rescued by a Good ...

A federal grant of over $1.1 million will be used to remove old oil well caps and equipment on Muskingum Island between Parkersburg and Marietta. The wells themselves will be filled with concrete and ...

Submitted by San Juan County. This week, the Islands Oil Spill Association hosted a two-day training that pulled together volunteers and representatives from numerous federal, state, tribal and local ...

Formed millions of years ago in the Indian Ocean by a process independent of tectonic collision, Indonesia’s Enggano Island is now home to many unique species and a diverse Indigenous society of ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday began hearings in a dispute between OPEC’s African members Equatorial Guinea and Gabon over several small islands in an area in the Gulf ...

Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil rising, ...

Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the ...

Having “islands” of trees peppered across oil palm plantations can boost the biodiversity of the landscape while maintaining crop yields, a new study shows. Researchers found that biodiversity and ...

Islands of trees in oil palm plantations can significantly increase biodiversity within five years without reducing productivity. This has been shown by an experiment, which has been running for over ...

Island has completed a comprehensive internal review of its extensive portfolio of Irish and international exploration and production assets and has analyzed its potential opportunities for short term ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will share in a Falkland Islands windfall when oil starts flowing there later this decade and, with taxes and royalties estimated at up to $167 billion (105.7 billion pounds ...

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded a $216 million contract to deliver a gas treatment plant to the South Tunisian Gas Project (STGP).The order was awarded by OMV ...