Thick, black tar balls, some of them as large as a foot in diameter, have washed ashore on Majali and Tilamati beaches, 8 kms from here.

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Margao/Panaji: The deposition of tar balls on some stretches of south Goa

Margao/Panaji: While the clean-up along some of the worst tar-sullied beaches began, the sticky substance that has washed up ashore hardened into lumps on Thursday.

The recent oil spill at the Mumbai harbour following the collision of two merchant vessels exposed gaping holes in the preparedness to tackle such emergencies.

Narayan Lakshman

Washington: The persistence of a giant plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the long-term impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill may be worse than earlier assumed, a scientific study has revealed.

In the latest issue of Science magazine, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) discussed their investigations of a plume of hydrocarbons at l

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KOCHI: Security agencies, including the Navy and the Coast Guard, along with the Lakshadweep officials began efforts to prevent a possible oil spillage from the cargo ship which ran into a coral reef off Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep islands.

The Centre on Tuesday assured compensation to those affected by the oil spill resulting from the collision of the two ships off Mumbai coast early this month maintaining that