In 1991, retreating Iraqi forces set over 700 Kuwaiti oil wells ablaze, creating an environmental catastrophe of ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up thousands of tons of fuel oil.

A construction vessel spilled oil at the site of a future Marine Corps airfield in northern Okinawa over the weekend.

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.