In July 1988, a fire breaks out on a vast oil rig in the North Sea, trapping Joe Meanen.

The UK’s renewable energy industry is not developing quickly enough to replace the fossil fuels altogether yet ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made environmental disasters ...

Fears are mounting of a potential environmental disaster off the coast of ... a US military-chartered oil tanker anchored in the North Sea. Video showed black plumes of smoke billowing high ...

Unlike other spills, we may not see birds, other species, or habitats drenched in oil. But this still has the potential to be an environmental disaster ... up in the North Sea.

Solong cargo ship remains on fire as arrested captain revealed as Russian - Humberside Police arrest 59-year-old man on ...

Emergency crews are battling to avoid the biggest environmental disaster of a generation off the UK coast today. Fires are still burning on an oil tanker ... crash in the North Sea at 9.48am ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

There will, Sarah Jones MP told the House of Commons, be no more licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. In statement entitled ... warns climate expert An oil rig is towed by tugboats ...