Brutal weather slows Alaska freighter search, spill cleanup
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When the freighter Kuroshima ran aground on Unalaska Island the day before Thanksgiving 1997, conditions were terrible for stopping an oil spill.
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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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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.
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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's coast probably amounted to thousands of gallons less than had been feared.
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The search for six crew members lost in the Bering Sea continued in the dark Thursday, a day after the rescue helicopter attempting to lift them to safety crashed and
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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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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By S.J. Komarnitsky / Skormarnitsky@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 25--WASILLA -- Cool, rainy weather Monday continued to aid crews battling a fire that's blackened nearly 10,000 acres near Trapper Lake in the Upper Susitna Valley, fire officials said.
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Description: A freighter carrying more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil breaks up near a national wildlife refuge on the Aleutian Islands off 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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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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Thanks to a break in the weather, search teams have found the black box of a cargo jet that crashed at Halifax&#39;s International Airport last week.
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Rescuers searched the turbulent Bering Sea on Sunday for three crew members missing from a crab boat that sank, killing two of the other three people aboard.
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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 Thursday.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter and pollution responders mostly were limited to staging operations in preparation for a break in the weather.
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Alaska&#39;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