The owners of a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker involved in South Korea's worst oil spill say the South Korean decision to indict the ship's officers for the incident is unjust. The owners say the crew should in fact be commended. Claudia Blume reports from Hong Kong.

Oil leaking from the MS Explorer cruise ship, which sank in Antarctic waters, could cause an environmental disaster near the Antarctic shore, a top-level foreign ministry official said on Thursday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych urged on Wednesday an independent probe into the Black Sea ecological disaster caused in main by the splitting open of an oil tanker on November 11.

Fishing and hunting losses from a fuel oil spill in a strait between the Black and Azov seas are estimated at over $160 million, the Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday.

Russia has started delivering special agents to help clean up the environmental aftermath of Sunday's tragedy between the Black and Azov Seas, an emergency ministry official said on Wednesday.

Although the SF Bay area oil spill is no where near the size of what has happened in the Black Sea, 58,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil that is currently floating around the Bay Area is causing unconscionable damage to the sea life of the region.

Russia's emergencies ministry announced on Monday the launch of a major operation in a Black Sea strait to contain an oil spill after an oil tanker sank in a storm.