Thousands of tons of oil have spilled creating an environmental disaster. The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned ship, ran aground on a coral reef at Pointe d'Esny near Mauritius in late July. After days ...

Cardinal Maurice Piat of Port-Louis, Mauritius, has praised public responses to an oil spill that devastated the island's coastline, as one prominent lay Catholic demanded "honest information" about ...

Three years after bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius, spilling 1000 tonnes of a new type of marine fuel oil, research has confirmed the oil is still present in an ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Some corals have lived for centuries at the fringes of Mauritius. Now smothered for days in heavy fuel oil spilled from a wrecked Japanese tanker nearby, parts of those reefs may ...

A new team of Japanese experts headed to Mauritius on Wednesday with special oil-absorbent materials to help the clean-up of tonnes of oil that leaked from a Japanese-owned ship. Six members of the ...

The major oil spill caused by a Japanese ship that ran aground in Mauritius may pose a long-term threat to the region's ecology, including to the Indian Ocean island's delicate mangroves, Japanese ...

The island nation of Mauritius was plunged into an environmental crisis after a wrecked Japanese ship has spilled tons of oil into the sea, baby elephants took part in a naming ceremony at the ...