The brown spots run like a trail of blood down the deserted coastline near this fishing village. Just underneath a handful of sand lies spilled oil.

BP's new face for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster admitted faults during a unique Q&A forum broadcast live online, AFP reported today.

Polar scientists are united on the likelihood of level rises - but how much and when?

Is the attention New Zealand is getting from foreign oil prospectors accelerating?

Oil giant ExxonMobil says new rules to curb drilling should be held off until the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster are fully understood.

NZ will join Australia in taking legal action over Japan's whaling programme if last minute diplomatic solutions are not found.

When it comes to fish, New Zealand is often held up as an exemplar of what happens when you get things right.

The world's oceans are warming up - and mankind is to blame, according to a scientists' report.

Computer models show the black ooze in the Gulf of Mexico may have already entered a major current flowing towards Florida and the Atlantic Ocean.

Emergency crews are desperately trying to put together a new plan to stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico

The most detailed account yet of what led to the deadly explosion on a BP oil rig that has left the US' coast exposed to millions of litres of leaking oil.

The US Coast Guard has successfully completed a controlled burn of a portion of the oil slick off the Gulf Coast.

Fisherman and seafaring residents of the Louisiana shoreline despair as a vast oil slick approaches.

Questions are sure to be raised about a self-policing system that trusted a commercial oil operator to take care of its own mishap.