A Japanese bulk carrier that has leaked hundreds of tonnes of fuel oil off the Mauritius coast has broken apart, authorities in the island nation say. The MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef ...

An estimated 1 ton of oil from the Japanese ship’s cargo ... The ship was about 1 mile off the southeast coast of Mauritius when it went aground, even though it was supposed to be 16 to 32 ...

An oil spill like this will impact almost everything ... while Japan has sent a six-member team to assist the French efforts. The Mauritius coast guard and several police units are also at the ...

Three years after the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius, spilling around 1,000 tons of a new type of marine fuel oil, Curtin University-led research has confirmed ...

This photo shows oil in Riviere des Creoles, Mauritius, on Aug. 9, after it leaked from the MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius. (Sophie ...

An animal rescue group said 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been ...

Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leaking from a grounded ...

formally known as the Republic of Mauritius, is located in the Indian Ocean, around 2,000 kilometres off the southeast coast of East Africa. Mauritius is paradise, with world-class spas ...