Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries
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A rare break in rough Bering Sea weather is allowing officials to gain a better sense of damage from a large spill in the Aleutian Islands.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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Science & environment: Fishing, climate change and pollution have left an indelible mark on virtually all of the world's oceans
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 6--Two years ago, birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach, a popular oceanfront park five miles south of Santa Cruz.   The Coast Guard searched for an oil spill in the ocean.
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Seabirds' blood can hold vital clues about the long-term ecological impacts of oil spills, researchers suggest.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Despite an &quot;alarming&quot; decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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A major spill of dense, viscous fuel from a freighter that ran aground was menacing sensitive wildlife habitat in the Aleutian Islands, but finding the six crew members lost
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An accelerating thaw of the Arctic may open vast regions for oil and gas exploration but that brings worries of spills in the fragile environment, experts said on Thursday.
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A cargo ship that ran aground, split in two and poured fuel oil into the Bering Sea in December ranks as one of the biggest spills in Alaska, dwarfed only by the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, state environmental officials said on Thursday.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 20--The names and numbers are sobering.   Big Lake, one of the most popular recreation sites in Southcentral Alaska, has measured hydrocarbon pollution near a swimming area at six times the acceptable state level for aquatic life.
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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Rough waves battered the remains of a grounded freighter Friday, causing more heavy oil to spill into the Bering Sea off the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.