Pollution accidentelle des eaux (+ déchets plastiques)

It’s been almost a year since a barge transporting coal ash from Puerto Rico to a landfill in Folkston, Georgia, spilled more than 5,000 tons of the toxic industrial byproduct into the ocean off Atlantic Beach.

The cause is still unknown. 

Reports of an oil sheen on Oct. 2, 2021 revealed a ruptured pipeline in San Pedro Bay, which released an estimated 25,000 gallons of oil into the waters off the coast of Orange County to San Diego …

A large-scale oil spill is unlikley from the sunken Felicity Ace car carrier, the ship’s manager said in an update. Felicity Ace sank on March 1 around 220 nautica

The oil leak started Friday in Edwardsville near Illinois 143 and entered Cahokia Creek, which runs parallel to the pipeline.

Après le naufrage du cargo transportant près de 4 000 voitures de luxe, la mise en œuvre de poursuites judiciaires s’annonce difficile, voire impossible car le bateau a sombré dans les eaux internationales, le « Far West » des océans.

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Brisbane River's polystyrene pontoons, torn from their moorings in the floods, are breaking up along 300 kilometres of beaches, threatening nesting turtles and raising fears that other marine animals will mistake the white pieces for food. 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations and Yemen’s Houthi rebels have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving the environmental threat posed by a tanker carrying more than 1 million barrels of crude oil that has been moored off the coast of the war-torn Arab nation since the 1980s, the U.N.

Des dizaines de serpents de mer ont été tués par une nappe de pétrole à Kalba au large des côtes Émiraties en fin d’année dernière d’après une étude qui a d’ailleurs souligné à quel point ces créature

Incident in 2021 off the east coast coated the animals in a thick black sludge, Sharjah government researchers say

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The barriers and other devices to soak oil from the water have been installed to prevent oil from spreading into the water

A freight barge collided with a tugboat, causing a spill of an unknown amount of diesel fuel into Neva Strait, approximately 18 miles northwest of Sitka.

Un pêcheur à pied qui, dimanche, se trouvait à l’est de l’ancien hoverport à hauteur du Fort-Vert, a constaté que la mer avait rejeté sur le sable quelques galettes d’hydrocarbures.

By Adedapo Adesanya Eni, the parent company of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), has declared a force majeure on expected oil output at its Brass terminal in Yenagoa. This means a shortfall of 25,000 barrels of crude oil and 13 million standard cubic metres of gas per day from the terminal. A force majeure is a legal

I'm having a hard time getting my mind around exactly how much 160,000 gallons of anything would be. Sadly, that's the amount of oil that was recently spilled into an Illinois creek based on multiple reports.

Lles Bretons se souviennent de l’Amoco Cadiz. 230.000 tonnes de pétrole sur nos plages L’une des pires catastrophes écologiques. C’était-il y a 44 ans..

The Environment Protection Authority is looking into how the chemical compound entered the waterway, but is yet to determine whether it was an accident.

By John Custodio Oswego Harbor is experiencing a fuel oil spill from the Oswego Harbor Power Plant, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). In response, city…

Ce dimanche 6 mars 2022, une nouvelle fuite d’eau mazouteuse a été détectée sur l’épave du Tresta Star, échouée sur le littoral du Tremblet depuis l

As the state, the oil company and tanker owners play the blame game, damage from the ecological disaster continues to spread

Un accord a été trouvé entre Lima et la compagnie pétrolière espagnole Repsol après la marée noire provoquée le 15 janvier dernier lors du déchargement d’un tanker au large de la raffinerie de La Pam…