NAIROBI (Reuters) – Some corals have lived on the fringes of Mauritius for centuries. Now for days smothered in heavy fuel oil spilled from a wrecked Japanese tanker nearby, parts of those reefs could be in trouble. The full impact of the toxic spill is still lacking, scientists say. While …
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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 …
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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 …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Mauritians make floating bombs of human hair and leaves in a round clock to leak oil from a grounded Japanese ship on its pristine shores of the Indian Ocean. FILE PHOTO: A satellite image shows the MV Wakashio ship and the oil spill off the southeast coast …
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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) – Fuel plays from a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground on a reef in Mauritius two weeks ago, causing an ecological disaster that endangers corals, fish and other marine life around the island of the Indian Ocean, say officials and environmentalists. FILE PHOTO: A satellite image …
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