Japanese Ship Operator to Put $9.4M Toward Mauritius Oil Spill Recovery
Environmentalists call lasting damages from spill devastating'
Environmentalists call lasting damages from spill devastating'
March comes month after ship struck a reef off Indian Ocean island nation; it later cracked, spilling 1,000 tons of fuel oil into fragile marine areas
Environmentalists say coral reefs off the island may never recover
Tug boats will pull bow out to sea and allow it to sink, according to environmental experts on island
MK Wakashio struck a coral reef causing islands worst ecological disaster
The condition of the MV Wakashio was worsening early Saturday after it ran aground on a reef near the Indian Ocean island last month causing a marine
Activists working to clear beaches fear huge environmental crisis, telling Reuters news agency that they saw dead eels floating in water and dead star
Prime minister calls leaking Japanese ship 'very serious situation'; oil leak described as ecological disaster
Carrier struck reef July 25, began leaking oil Thursday; Mauritius calls spill an environmental disaster
Government has declared an environmental emergency; France is sending help from its nearby Reunion island
Oil company officials say the well has been leaking for two weeks
Some 20,000 tons of oil spilled into the Arctic region a week ago