Scientists Say Valdez Spill Impacts Slow to Fade
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Crude oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill still lingers in Alaska's Prince William Sound and nearby areas, with parts of the environment still far from recovery, several scientists said at a three-day conference.
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Exxon Mobil says it is slowly removing contamination from a 1950 oil spill in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but some say the efforts are a bare minimum.
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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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Plant plankton in parts of the Pacific Ocean are absorbing much less CO2 than previously thought, scientists say.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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A short distance from Spindletop oil  field, the site of the gusher that triggered the Texas oil rush  more than a century ago, scientists have found a purpose for  the long-disused underground reservoirs -- as storage for the  pollution emitted by burning fossil fuels.
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Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years.
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Shrinking ice sheets and melting glaciers are making northern seas less salty, researchers say.
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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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An oil spill spread out over Puget  Sound on Thursday, covering an area of several square miles of  water just north of the port city of Tacoma, Washington state  officials said.
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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.
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By DAN JOLING ANCHORAGE, Alaska - America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday.
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Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walrus, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limit to the protections they can provide.
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Scientists planned to examine oil samples and the Coast Guard issued subpoenas in an investigation into who caused at least 1,000 gallons of oil to spill in Puget Sound, officials said.
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Seabirds who survive an oil spill can help track the spread of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the event.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Canadian scientists at an international symposium on climate change say a new report shows the Kyoto Protocol agreement on limiting fossil fuel emissions is not enough to slow the potentially disastrous warming of the planet.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.