as france pressed on with mopping-up operations to cleanse parts of its Atlantic coastline polluted by an oil spill recently, a Dutch orinthologist said that oil from the sunken tanker Erika may

Pakistan federal minister

the world's second-largest passenger cruise line the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has been fined us $6.5 million for dumping oily bilge water and other

about 10 tonnes of heating oil spilled into the Neva River after a tanker ran aground in St Petersburg. Fortunately, there was no immediate threat to drinking water or the environment, officials

the European Union (eu) will grant Syria us $406,200 to help the country protect its territorial seas and coasts from accidental oil pollution, an eu official said recently. He

iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is

About 110,000 litres (24,200 gallons) of diesel oil was spilled after two tankers collided near southern Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, an official from the city's environment department said. The

A judge has frozen the Argentine assets worth us $60 million of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group and a German firm after an oil spill in the River Plate, a local official said.

A 195-metre cargo ship carrying nearly 1.5 million litres of oil was set on fire by explosive experts in Coos Bay, Oregon, usa. The action was taken in anticipation of a fierce storm which threatened

AN OIL slick in the English Channel is threatening marine life along a 225 km, stretch of the southeastern coast of England. "This is the first major incident of its kind that we have had since the