The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday began hearings in a dispute between OPEC’s African members Equatorial Guinea and Gabon over several small islands in an area in the Gulf ...

Submitted by San Juan County. This week, the Islands Oil Spill Association hosted a two-day training that pulled together volunteers and representatives from numerous federal, state, tribal and local ...

A commercial fishing vessel that sank Saturday near San Juan Island, Wash. is spilling oil, the U.S. Coast Guard said.All five crewmembers from the sinking Aleutian Isle were rescued by a Good ...

The state Department of Environmental Protection has cited the Bunner Island Steam Electric Station for discharging oil into the Susquehanna River and also causing a temperature fluctuation that ...

A judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit challenging a fox removal plan on Dauphin Island, ruling that he lacks jurisdiction to ...

Formed millions of years ago in the Indian Ocean by a process independent of tectonic collision, Indonesia’s Enggano Island is now home to many unique species and a diverse Indigenous society of ...

Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations. With global demand for palm oil rising, ...

SAO TOME -- It sounds like every poor country's dream: Strike oil, get rich, wave want goodbye. But on the West African Sao Tome islands, where a big influx of cash from crude may be just months away, ...

Having “islands” of trees peppered across oil palm plantations can boost the biodiversity of the landscape while maintaining crop yields, a new study shows. Researchers found that biodiversity and ...

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been awarded a $216 million contract to deliver a gas treatment plant to the South Tunisian Gas Project (STGP).The order was awarded by OMV ...