Tag: oil spill

• Wednesday, October 21st 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Venezuelan tanker listing dangerously: fears of a catastrophic spill of 1,3 million barrels of crude

  

  Concerns are growing that an oil tanker carrying millions of gallons of oil could spill its load into the sea between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, causing an ecological catastrophe.

• Saturday, August 29th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Some forty dolphins die in area of Mauritius affected by a Japanese tanker oil spill

  

  At least 40 dolphins have mysteriously died in an area of Mauritius affected by an oil spill from a Japanese boat, officials and witnesses said on Friday, as onlookers described the deaths of one mother dolphin and her baby.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Oil spill from refinery triggers an environmental disaster along the Venezuelan coastline

  

  A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Brazilian oil spill keeps advancing and has reached the north of Rio do Janeiro state

  

  Oil from a spill that has contaminated a stretch of Brazil's coast was detected in Rio de Janeiro state, the navy said over the weekend, as President Jair Bolsonaro warned the country was preparing for the worst.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazilians desperately cleaning the oil spill ahead of the peak tourism season

  

  Months after thick oil began turning idyllic beaches in Brazil into “black carpets,” workers and volunteers wearing rubber gloves race against time to scrape off the remaining fragments ahead of the country's peak tourism season.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Greek company denies any connection of one of its tankers with the massive oil spill in Brazilian beaches

  

  The manager of an oil tanker being probed by Brazilian authorities in connection with an oil spill off the country’s coast has found “no proof” of the vessel conducting activities that may have led to leaks on a journey between Venezuela and Malaysia.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Brazilian Navy focus the major oil spill suspect on a Greek-flagged tanker

  

  A Greek-flagged tanker is the main suspect in oil spills that have been appearing along the coast of Brazil for two months, the defense ministry said Friday, finally lifting some of the suspense over this “environmental catastrophe.”

• Friday, November 1st 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil's oil slick heading to unique coral reefs; Navy has cut down possible culprits of the spill to ten vessels

  

  With mystery oil slicks still moving down Brazil's coast, the Brazilian Navy sent more ships on Thursday to try to prevent the pollution of unique coral reefs of the Abrolhos Archipelago marine park, a haven of South Atlantic Ocean biodiversity.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Oil spills on Brazil's northeast beaches, “the worst environmental attack”

  

  Oil spills washing up on beaches along more than 2,000 kilometers of Brazil’s northeast coastline could be the worst environmental “attack” in the country’s history, the CEO of Petrobras said on Tuesday.

• Saturday, October 26th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  AFP Photo of Brazilian boy with body smeared in oil goes viral

  

  A boy walks ashore in Brazil in filthy waist-high water with a look of exasperation and his body smeared in oil, a photographer takes a shot, and the image goes viral.