However, the ban includes a transitional arrangement that gives shipping companies time to adapt while simultaneously protecting the Arctic from oil spills. It allows ships with protected fuel ...

The challenge of drilling in the Arctic and mitigating oil spills in the ocean was best illustrated in 2012 when Shell’s ...

Greenpeace has today (3 August) held the opening recital of a month-long run of musical protests against Arctic oil drilling taking place ... An inexpensive method of cleaning up oil spills which also ...

From today, ships going through Arctic waters can no longer ... Only five to 10 per cent of the oil will evaporate in the first hours after a spill. Spills usually spread into thick slicks on ...

a global leader in oil spill response and environmental solutions, have signed an agreement within the International Arctic Forum, on the main principles of cooperation to study the prospects of ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill ... Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama administration approves Arctic drilling ahead of ...

Arctic marine conditions contribute to an oil spill “response gap” that effectively limits the ability to clean up after an oil spill. A new report commissioned by WWF concludes that the only way to ...

Alaska’s northern frontier and Arctic Ocean waters are teeming with species found in few other places, and many of them are now under threat from the oil industry and its enablers. Nearly all Arctic ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of an oil spill in Alaska that alerted the world to the dangers of oil development in the Arctic. The holed Exxon Valdez tanker spewed more than 41 million litres of ...

While these circumstances could well be considered a failure of sorts, they could just as easily be seen as par for the course, as the extraction of Arctic oil and gas ranks among the most expensive ...

Rescuers have removed more than 100 tonnes of fuel after a spill in the Russian Siberian city of Norilsk, the Maritime Rescue Service’s press service said earlier.