The highly toxic material may have spilled into the water when a tanker collided with a container ship on Monday ...

An oil tanker carrying jet fuel and a cargo ship packed with highly toxic chemicals collided in the North Sea off the coast ...

What is sodium cyanide? Experts explain health and environmental risks of North Sea spill - A North Sea cargo ship collision ...

Collision area has massive populations of seabirds, such as puffins and gannets, while porpoises and seals breed nearby ...

"Sodium Cyanide is used widely in metal processing and, whilst quite corrosive and toxic, it only becomes a serious problem ...

Ernst Russ, who own the cargo ship, say the burning vessel is drifting southwards with one crew member still missing.

A tanker and a cargo vessel collide ...

There are no containers of sodium cyanide onboard a ship involved in a crash in the North Sea, its owner said. Shipping company Ernst Russ said Solong has empty containers previously used to ...

Environmental organisations and the UK authorities are racing to limit the pollution from the ship collision in the North Sea ...

Shipping company Ernst Russ said Solong has empty containers previously used to transport the ‘hazardous chemical’.