Testy Sea Hampers Response to Alaskan Spill
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Rough sea and bad weather have hampered efforts to deal with the oil spill from the freighter that split off the Aleutians last week.
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By Raloff, Janet  ENVIRONMENT  Huge tracts of delicate coral gardens and soft-coral forests off the coast of Alaska will be permanently protected from fishing gear that targets groundfish and shellfish by scraping the seafloor.
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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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US Coastguard chiefs say an oil and fuel spill from a freighter that broke in two when it ran aground off Alaska is probably thousands of gallons less than they feared.
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Sea erosion brings an urgency to archaeologists' work, as bodies emerge on the shoreline of northern Alaska.
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The Arctic Barents Sea is under threat from overfishing, oil and gas exploration and Soviet-era radioactive waste, the U.N. Environment Program said on Tuesday.
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A large earthquake rattled Alaska's seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries
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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
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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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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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It's probably too late to save a small pod of killer whales whose numbers plummeted after the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
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Authorities were trying to determine the origin of a fuel spill that could threaten coral reefs off Puerto Rico, the government said Thursday.
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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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A new report on the Coast Guard's response to a November oil spill in San Francisco Bay criticizes the agency's delay in notifying the public about the leak but said crews responded rapidly, the agency's top officer in California says.
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An oil spill near a fragile wildlife reserve off Alaska, unleashed when a freighter snapped in two last week, appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said Monday.
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The state has stopped splashing roads with saltwater left over from oil production, at least until it gets results from a laboratory checking the wastewater for contamination, officials said Thursday.
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Recent damage caused some to question the need to better protect undersea communication cables from attack.