Black Sea oil spill worsens as third Russian tanker sends distress call Spilled oil has washed up along "tens of kilometres" of the Russian Black Sea coast after two tankers were badly damaged in a storm at the weekend, a regional official said on Tuesday, and state media ... 12/17/2024 - 8:33 pm | View Link
'Oil is everywhere': Russians tackle Black Sea spill An oil spill from damaged tankers has contaminated a long stretch of sandy beaches along the Russian Black Sea shoreline, polluting the air and threatening wildlife in one of the worst ecological ... 12/17/2024 - 7:59 pm | View Link
Video. Oil spill ravages Black Sea shores, causing major environmental crisis Video. Footage showed oil-streaked shores and birds covered in mazut. Officials say clean-up efforts are underway, though environmental impacts remain uncertain. 12/17/2024 - 8:05 am | View Link
8,000 litres of diesel spilled at salmon farm near Zeballos, B.C. Up to 8,000 litres of diesel fuel has spilled into the water at an open-net pen salmon farm south of Zeballos, B.C. According to provincial incident reports, the spill was caused by "human error ... 12/17/2024 - 4:16 am | View Link
Mazut spill creates potential Black Sea ecological disaster On Monday night, another Volgoneft tanker in the Kerch Strait area sent an S.O.S. signal, reports the Russian agency TASS, citing the Marine Rescue Service. The vessel is carrying 3,630 metric tonnes ... 12/17/2024 - 3:19 am | View Link
Munich-based startup Vaeridion has secured €14mn to develop an electric aircraft that it hopes will whisk passengers on short-haul routes around Europe by 2030. “The microliner looks like a regular plane and it takes off from a runway — the only difference is that it will be powered by batteries,” Vaeridion’s co-founder and CEO, Ivor van Dartel, told TNW in an interview last month.