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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Seabirds who survive an oil spill can help track the spread of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the event.
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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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The pristine Arctic waters of the Barents Sea are overfished and face serious pollution problems, the UN says.
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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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Rough waves battered the remains of a grounded freighter Friday, causing more heavy oil to spill into the Bering Sea off the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain.
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Eskimos in the Arctic are worried about changes in the wildlife resulting from climate change and the gradual increase in contaminants.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 20--The names and numbers are sobering.   Big Lake, one of the most popular recreation sites in Southcentral Alaska, has measured hydrocarbon pollution near a swimming area at six times the acceptable state level for aquatic life.
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Study illustrates extent to which overfishing, air pollution and commercial shipping impact oceans.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Â Frustrated by a lack of regulations limiting global warming, a conservation group wants ribbon seals listed as threatened or endangered because their habitat Â sea ice Â is disappearing amid climate change.
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Our crushing appetite for carnivorous fish like salmon and tuna depletes the oceans of smaller, feeder fish, and endangers the planet's marine ecology
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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 state officials said on  Saturday.
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Farmed salmon have been found to accumulate much higher levels of chemical flame retardants than their wild counterparts, raising alarm that they might pose an increased cancer risk.
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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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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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In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.
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The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, a US report on the impact of global warming says.