Focus Now on Cleanup of Alaska Wrecked Cargo Ship
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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 days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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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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Aircraft from the Coast Guard and the Alaska Air National Guard made their way toward an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands on Monday in an attempt to rescue its 22 crew members.
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Scientists are sweeping, vacuuming and picking at the mangled wreckage recovered from the Genesis spacecraft that crashed into the Utah desert on Wednesday.
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Rescue and cleanup crews are racing to an isolated island in Alaska&#39;s Aleutian chain to hunt for six missing seamen and begin assessing environmental damage from a grounded freighter that broke apart last night on rocky, wildlife-rich shores and started
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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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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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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska&#39;s coast - a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and stated officials said on  Saturday.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- 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.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 27--Aiming to get the most precise sockeye picture yet, a joint state-private effort is taking on the job of accurately gauging the seemingly anemic returns to the Susitna River drainage.
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A Navy-backed dredging operation to clear bottom mud from around the USS Intrepid is complete, and high-powered tugboats are ready to drag the historic aircraft carrier from its Hudson River mooring, but there is no word when the ship will be moved to a New Jersey dry dock for a two-year overhaul.
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A 738-foot-long freighter broke in half in the Bering Sea in Alaska and is leaking thousands of gallons of heavy fuel and diesel into the water.
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An unmanned Russian cargo ship packed with trash cast off from the International Space Station (ISS) late Friday to make room for fresh delivery due at the orbital lab next week.
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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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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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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.