The oil spill from the Prestige petroleum oil tanker in 2002 caused serious damage to the ecosystems in the Bay of Biscay. A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has ...

The oil spill from the tanker Prestige, which sank off Spain in November 2002, has been far worse than previously claimed, the Spanish government has disclosed. Environmentalists are now comparing ...

The Prestige sinking is hardly the first tragedy to hit these rocky, pine-studded shores, known locally as the "Coast of Death." Residents here point to another major oil spill from the Aegean Sea ...

In the aftermath of the Prestige disaster, local fishermen tried to scoop out the oil by hand. Some 300,000 sea birds died as a result of the spill and marine life is still impacted, even two decades ...

The Prestige was a 26-year-old ... current favoured the heavy fuel oil's path towards land. At the time, the oil spill covered 170 kilometres of coastline, and in the following days, it continued ...

The Prestige was a 26-year-old ... The ocean current favoured the heavy fuel oil's path towards land. At the time, the oil spill covered 170 kilometres of coastline, and in the following days, it ...