Pollution accidentelle des eaux (+ déchets plastiques)

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.

Le vraquier japonais qui a heurté un récif de l’île Maurice en juillet contenait 3 800 tonnes de fioul et 200 tonnes de diesel  Le 25 juillet, le vraquier japonais MV Wakashio heurtait un

Between 2018 and 2019, over 1,300 oil spills occurred in various parts of Nigeria, the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has said.

Selon une étude, le déversement de Deepwater Horizon a été 30% plus important, et beaucoup plus profond dans le golfe du Mexique.

Funds needed to build the government-ordered systems were never released, leading to a request by affected provinces to postpone the deadline for construction.

Corse-Matin - Pollution maritime à Bonifacio : L'OEC tire la sonnette d'alarme

Nine years ago, BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, causing the worst oil spill in US history. The disaster on April 20, 2010 killed 11 workers as the flaming rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico. It took nearly three months to stem the flow of oil from the ruptured […]

As reported in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, there are still lessons to be learned from the Exxon Valdez oil spill that occurred on March 24th, 1989.

A recent report issued by the United States Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO) found...

Of the 162,902 pounds collected last year, 154,157 pounds were marine debris — fishing nets, lines, eel traps and other debris that kills marine life and destroys reefs.

Mauritius is still evaluating the Oil Spill damage, two months after a cargo sank off its coast. The spill is the worst environmental disaster in the country's history.

The first oil well in South America was built more than a century and a half ago, in the district of Zorritos, in northern Peru. Fishermen still tell the story of how the place got its name: locals compared the smell of oil to that of foxes, zorros in Spanish. Nowadays, there are 1,200 oil […]

A decade after the explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig caused 4.9m barrels of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, marine scientists have found that fish in the region are still affected from the disaster. On 20 April, 2010, a methane explosion on the rig caused it to catch fire and sink, around 40 miles from the Louisiana coastline. Eleven workers died and 17 others were

Martha Alfred récoltait jusqu'à 20 sacs de manioc par an jusqu'au jour où le pétrole s'est répandu sur sa petite ferme agricole du sud-est du Nigeria, polluant les terres autrefois vertes et fertiles.

Melissa Hays never would have remembered the day of her humdrum outing at Harp's, a neighborhood grocery store in her hometown of Mayflower, Arkansas, had she not suddenly been overwhelmed by the noxious, chemical smell of oil.

A team of contractors has finally contained an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spewing from the site of a damaged platform for more than 14 years. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Thursday that teams successfully deployed a subsea system that is able to contain and collect oil being discharged from …

VIENNE — Des millions de tonnes de plastique sont rejetées en mer chaque année, mais seule une petite partie est visible. Où disparaît le reste? Des chercheurs s’approchent désormais de la résolution du mystère du «plastique perdu».

722sharesIt’s been an active beginning to 2019 in terms of maritime casualties.  The phone at the Panama Marine Accident Investigation Department was likely ringing off the hook with three major incidents on Panama-flagged vessels in the first two days.  The first three weeks of the year have produced a wide range of serious casualties…and they …