A Japanese oil tanker recently ran aground in the Indian Ocean, devastating one of the world's last remaining global biodiversity hotspots. This could significantly impact the discovery of novel ...

A major attempt to protect Mauritius and the Indian Ocean from the 980-foot MV Wakashio oil spill is underway. The ship ran aground off the coast on July 25 carrying 4,000 tons of oil.

Indian Ocean Oil Spill Devastates Marine Life. In May, the Singapore-flagged X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka while traveling through the Indian Ocean. The crew was ...

Of the 1,000 tons of oil that seeped from the ship, about 460 tons had been scooped out of the ocean, said the statement. Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said his government was working ...

The front half of the large Panama-flagged, Japanese vessel responsible for the worst oil spill in the Indian Ocean, the Wakashio, that has brought heartache to islanders on the Indian Ocean ...

Oil spill prompts environmental state of emergency in Mauritius 00:30. Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to ...

Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leaking from a grounded ...

The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe ... This oil spill "is likely one of the most terrible ecological crises ever seen on the small ...

A ship that has leaked tons of oil off the coast of Mauritius has split apart, authorities said on Saturday. “At around 4.30 pm, a major detachment of the vessel’s forward section was observed ...

It should be noted that sorbents are single-use, and user countries, in the event of a spill, must rapidly replace the used equipment, according to the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds ...

Oil spill prompts environmental state of emergency in Mauritius 00:30. Johannesburg — Mauritius says it is seeking compensation from the owners of a Japanese ship that spilled oil after it ...

The leak was an environmental calamity for the Indian Ocean nation, ... Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: 2 Officers Plead Guilty In ’20 Mauritius Oil Spill. Order Reprints ...