Oil spill threatens Aleutian islands
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Fuel oil is spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska, threatening the fragile ecocystem of the Aleutian islands.
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By NO BYLINE  A WILDLIFE expert has warned that an oil spill in the English Channel could have disastrous effects on birds migrating to the Bass Rock.
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Japanese and US experts were helping efforts to contain the Philippines' worst oil spill as the coastguard warned of a &quot;looming ecological timebomb.&quot;
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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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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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 jolted Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific on Wednesday, Japan's weather agency said, triggering a tsunami advisory for Hawaii.
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US Coastguard chiefs say an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska is probably thousands of gallons less than they feared.
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HANOI, Vietnam - An oil spill off Vietnam has spread along 124 miles of coastline and affected popular tourist spots, but the source still remains a mystery, an official said Monday.
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 jolted areas of Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific on Wednesday, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.
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It's probably too late to save a small pod of killer whales whose numbers plummeted after the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a sensitive
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The only thing that the rich oil and gas reserves just off the sandy shores of Russia's Sakhalin Island have done for Tatyana Kuklik is spoil her fish.
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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
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About 150 people were ready to begin cleaning up an oil spill threatening endangered animals on Sunday, four days after a ship broke apart and six people died in a helicopter rescue attempt.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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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.