Sitting off the coast of Yemen lies a nearly half-century-old ship with roughly 1.14 million barrels of crude oil on board, the global agency said – and it's "deteriorating rapidly." ...

A supertanker off the coast of Yemen has been decaying since 2015, and crews are removing oil to prevent a catastrophic spill. Visuals explain how.

Yemen's Houthis sank two cargo ships in the Red Sea this week, the first flare-up in seven months in the Iran-backed group's ...

The FSO Safer held about four times the amount of oil leaked in the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill of 1989. Moored north of the port city of Hudaydah on Yemen’s west coast, the 1,188-foot tanker ...

"The transfer of the oil to the Yemen will prevent the worst case scenario of a catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, but it is not the end of the operation," said David Gressly, U.N. Humanitarian ...

A United Nations operation to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea by salvaging a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward this week after years of delays.

The potential oil spill could become one of the worst environmental disasters in recent history. Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion burns in the Red Sea, following attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea after being attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels and threatening a massive oil spill has been salvaged, a security ...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set explosives aboard a Greek-flagged tanker that ... putting the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill. ...

This frame grab from video released by the Ansar Allah Media Office, the media arm of Yemen's Houthi rebels, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, shows explosions striking the Greek-flagged oil tanker ...

A Greek-flagged oil tanker ablaze for weeks after attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels has been "successfully towed to a safe area without any oil spill." ...

The U.S. State Department referred AP to its earlier remarks comparing the potential spill from the Sounion to the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989, which released over 250,000 barrels of oil into ...