Boasting beauty and variety, choose from the many beaches dotted around the island of Mauritius for a day at the beach ...

A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and triggering a state of 'environmental emergency'.

Travel; Africa; Mauritius 'Mauritius does much more than completing the tropical island cliche checklist' Chris Granet didn't just find perfect beaches and a coral reef which turned the coastline ...

The spill didn't happen immediately. The MV Wakashio became stuck when it collided with the coral reef about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) off the Mauritius coast.

Mauritius oil spill. Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius are working around the clock to reduce the damage done to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill ...

Satellite imagery captures the dramatic efforts to protect the coast of the tropical Indian Ocean island of Mauritius from a Japanese freighter that ran ashore and started leaking oil last week.

MAURITIUS has declared a state of emergency after at least 1,000 tonnes of oil poured into the Indian Ocean when a Japanese ship ran aground on a reef. Here is a map of the spill and the impact ...

The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off its coast in late July, an accident that has led to a large ...