An Italian Navy officer gives instructions to migrants waiting to disembark from Italian Navy ship “Driade” in Messina’s port, Sicily, Italy, April 18, 2015. The UN refugee agency has confirmed that 800 people lost their lives in a ship accident in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend. “We can say that 800 are dead,” said Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner... 

A major oil spill has occurred in the strait of water separating Staten Island, NYC and the state of New Jersey. The spill, of more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel, reportedly occurred in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Coast Guard said the incident occurred in the Arthur Kill tidal strait as fuel leaked from the Motiva oil tank facility, according to a report by NBC New York. Some 200 people...