Environmental Protection Ministry team checks Minerva Helen in Piraeus port, eliminates it from list of dozens of tankers under investigation for massive tar contamination

Environmental Protection Ministry officials sent to Greece to investigate vessel suspected of causing massive oil spill and subsequent environmental disaster

Volunteers help clean up swath of coastline that is a nesting site for turtles, as officials say pollution could continue washing up for months

From large patches clinging to algae to tiny droplets in the sand, the dark, sticky chemical is defying painstaking efforts to decontaminate almost the entire coastline

At impoverished village, locals hit by the pandemic have taken another blow with the recent environmental disaster, but insist on continuing their work

A national response plan for marine oil pollution incidents was ordered in 2008; it was never implemented. Now the beaches are closed, seafood is banned, and further disasters loom

Responding to accusation of lagging in both cleanup and investigation, official says 'no one in the Mediterranean knew about it'; says at least 5 ships suspected

Ruling, taken as a precautionary measure, goes into effect immediately and will last until further notice

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Funds bugeted to deal with contamination caused by offshore oil spill that has shuttered most of Israel's Mediterranean coast; Haifa court drops media gag order on spill probe