A chemical spill at a storage plant in Portland, which forced residents indoors, is expected to keep the port closed on Monday. The port in Victoria's southwest, which caters for fertilisers, grains and woodchip, as well as the huge Alcoa smelter, will have a skeleton staff until the leak...

Up to five pelicans are believed to have been affected by an oil spill in the Brisbane River that has spread upstream to Breakfast Creek. Five tonnes of fuel oil leaked into the river at about 6.45am (AEST) on Monday as a livestock carrier was being refuelled at Hamilton wharves. Maritime Sa...

Six Melbourne dock workers have been treated at hospital after a corrosive chemical spill. The workers had been unloading a cargo ship on Friday evening in the city's industrial ports when a release valve on a giant cylinder was damaged, a fire department spokesman says. About 200 litres...

Oil and phosphate fertiliser are spilling into the sea at Christmas Island after a cargo ship sank in the island's port on Sunday.Poor weather conditions and clouds have prevented the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) from assessing the extent of the leaks in waters at the island, i...