oil spill

Leading oil producer Rosneft burns spilled oil to 'minimise ecological damage'.

Mysterious 'lakes of black oily liquid' found near Nizhnevartovsk.

So far 60 birds saved but they are so thickly covered in oil they cannot fly or swim.

Floodwater from Ob River is black from spill as emergency workers flight to limit damage.

Or is it too expensive to put the environment before the need for energy?

Both Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund are expressing grave concern at the risk of contamination in the Pechora Sea.

Permafrost remains of long-gone woolly rhinos, mammoths and cave lions bring intriguing scientific breakthrough.

Residents 'heartless' to abandon animals when oil leaked into floodwater.

TNK-BP, a Russian-British company, is under fire concerning 784 environmental accidents reported in 2011, compared with 20 by rival Lukoil.

Bad weather preventing clean up amid fears for endangered sea lions.