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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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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TORONTO (CP) - Arctic governments must cut emissions of carbon dioxide immediately or face the extinction of species, damaging storms and flooding, says the World Wildlife Fund.
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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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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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The Arctic may seem a remote and pristine region, but winds and tides carry man-made toxins to the region, endangering wildlife there, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.
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Coast Guard officials Monday said an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska&#39;s coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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With harsh weather tilting the bow half of a freighter wrecked off Alaska two weeks ago, up to 316,000 additional gallons of oil are thought to have spilled from the ship.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.
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ANCHORAGE, Dec. 10 -- High winds gusting across the Bering Sea hampered efforts Friday to stem an oil spill from a broken freighter, and there was still no sign of six crew members who were lost when a rescue helicopter crashed in the turbulent waters.
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Salvagers have begun removing oil from tanks on a freighter that broke apart last month off Alaska, spilling most of its estimated 442,000 gallons of fuel onto the shoreline.
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Researchers at the Alaska Sealife Center are getting an education in the sex lives of a rare sea duck species that is disappearing from its nesting grounds in Alaska.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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An often-fatal bacterial disease that has sickened hundreds of sea lions on the Central Coast is seen as a threat to humans and other mammals as well.
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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 stated officials said on  Saturday.