Aleutian Spill Shows Area's Vulnerability
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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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Tidal waves, or tsunami, often set off by undersea earthquakes, have caused several major disasters in coastal communities over the years.
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Undersea quakes are inevitable. The questions are where and when Â and the recent catastrophe may provide clues.
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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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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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A computer model that can predict the impact of a tsunami from the San Francisco Bay area to Alaska is helping scientists plot danger zones in coastal cities to guide emergency planning.
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While the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean has focused attention on that part of the world, great waves also pose a threat to the United States.
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The United States needs serious repairs to its tsunami warning system, including the replacement of three warning buoys off Alaska, officials said on Wednesday.
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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 Indian Ocean tsunami has pushed disaster early warning to the top of the agenda at a meeting of the world's small islands, potentially crowding out concerns about climate change and trade, some delegates say.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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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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In foul weather in the Bering Sea, a Coast Guard salvage team, oil cleanup experts and marine biologists worked Monday to assess and contain damage caused by a soybean
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town  next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch  disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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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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A warning center such as those used  around the Pacific could have saved most of the thousands of  people who died in Asia's earthquake and tsunamis, a U.S.  Geological Survey official said on Sunday.