A landmark UN report last year slammed multinational oil companies for 50 years of oil pollution, but a year later, nothing has improved.

BP engineers desperately explored options on Sunday to control oil gushing from a ruptured well deep under the Gulf of Mexico.

High winds and rough seas hampered efforts on Saturday to prevent an oil slick from reaching US shores and wreaking enormous environmental damage.

WWF expedition into Timor Sea finds dolphins, sea birds, turtles and other marine wildlife at risk in oil spill that began in August.