Hope dims in Alaska rescue
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Frustrated by furious winds, mountainous seas and a mere five-hour window of December daylight, rescuers searched Thursday for six people lost in the Bering Sea after the
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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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By Lynda V. Mapes, Seattle Times  Jun. 14--Five years after Springer's rescue, the orphaned orca's relocation to her pod in the wild appears to be an unqualified success.
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More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the stateâs struggling timber industry.
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Blowing snow forced two rescue helicopters to turn back Tuesday while trying to carry emergency help to an Arctic village whose electrical generator failed during a weekend blizzard that sent the temperature to 20 below zero.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The search for six crew  members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island  has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup  of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on  Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The new year began for  millions of tsunami survivors with grieving and trauma, but a  few of the luckier ones saw a ray of hope as the outside world  finally came to their rescue.
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Russian rescuers brought five miners to   the surface alive on Saturday and three others climbed out on   their own after more than two days trapped in a burning gold   mine, but hopes faded for nine others still missing.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Rescuers who saved a two-year-old  boy trapped by a landslide after Japan's deadliest earthquake  in a decade struggled to free his sister on Thursday but hopes  were fading for her survival.
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The fate of thousands of people missing in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar islands is still unclear as rescuers battle to reach remote communities.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 17--Firefighters south of Anchor Point kept a wildland blaze at bay Saturday, felling trees, laying hose and drowning out hot spots on the fire's edge, state firefighters said.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and ecologically fragile wildlife refuge in the Aleutian Islands.
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A search resumed Tuesday for a 12-year-old Boy Scout missing in the Uinta Mountains, but chilly, wet weather has dimmed hopes that rescuers will find him alive, officials said.
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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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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter, but pollution responders said they managed to begin setting up initial
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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.