Tag Archives: Fossil fuels

Illustration: Elena Scotti. Photos: Getty Images Image nuts swaying with plant life, oceans swaying with life, dinosaurs running across the Earth. Imagine that plants and animals die, and over the course of 300 million years, coal, oil and gas become complex series of processes underground. Fast forward to the present …

Turkey has warned Greece of retaliation against any attack on its research vessel in the eastern Mediterranean and accused France of acting as a bully amid escalating tensions in the energy-rich region. Speaking to reporters after Friday’s prayers in Istanbul, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said one of the warships …

It’s a ship captain’s worst nightmare – the sick accident and the ear-splitting, grinding crescendo when your ship runs aground. That was the fate of the MV Wakashio, as it ran on July 25 in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. No human lives were lost, but the environmental consequences have …

The Japanese tanker that ran around Mauritius and threatened an environmental disaster has stopped leaking, but there is a danger that the ship will break in two. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth confirmed in a television briefing on Tuesday that there has been no more spillage from tanker MV Wakashio since …

Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean nation Mauritius have stuffed dustbins with sugar leaves to create easy oil spill barriers, as tons of fuel leaking from a ground ship ship puts endangered wildlife at further risk. The government declared on Saturday an environmental need because satellite images showed a dark …