Alaska Oil Spill Takes Toll on Animals and Fisheries
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A rare break in rough Bering Sea weather is allowing officials to gain a better sense of damage from a large spill in the Aleutian Islands.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will dramatically alter native ecosystems.
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For several decades researchers have studied toxin levels in Arctic peoples and wildlife and tracked pollution sources. Peter Ross is a marine mammal toxicologist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney, British Columbia.
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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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The pristine Arctic waters of the Barents Sea are overfished and face serious pollution problems, the UN says.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 6--Two years ago, birds covered in oil kept turning up along Seacliff State Beach, a popular oceanfront park five miles south of Santa Cruz.   The Coast Guard searched for an oil spill in the ocean.
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By MARY PEMBERTON ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Despite an &quot;alarming&quot; decrease in sea otters in southwest Alaska, the federal government is dragging its heels when it comes to designating critical habitat to help them recover, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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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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With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Plaintiffs in the long-running case surrounding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a $5 billion punitive fine against Exxon Mobil Corp, a petition filed with highest U.S. court shows.
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Fisheries in many countries affected by the Asian tsunami have been decimated, says the United Nations.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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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
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Science & environment: Fishing, climate change and pollution have left an indelible mark on virtually all of the world's oceans