More than a month has passed since two two oil tankers began leaking thousands of tons of oil into the Black Sea after being ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

Mountainous areas along Turkey's Black Sea coast are prone to flooding in the summer. But Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on a visit to the area on Thursday "this is the worst flood disaster ...

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in ...

Russia has declared a federal state of emergency over an oil spill in the Black Sea, which came after a tanker "split in half" during a fierce winter storm. The head of the Russian Emergencies ...

Impact Link Ukrainian naval drones armed with heat-seeking missiles shot down two Russian helicopters and damaged a third above the Black Sea earlier this week, Kyiv said on Thursday. The unusual ...

Remote-controlled cameras offer a first-time glimpse of numerous wrecks entombed in the icy depths off the coast of Bulgaria. This story appear in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

An Estonian cargo ship has sunk off the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa after an explosion, the ship's owners say. All six crew members of the Helt were able to abandon ship and Ukrainian ...

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in ...