Alaska oil spill not as bad as first feared, but birds mired ...
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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 Coast Guard helicopter crews who work out of Air Station Kodiak often fly through wind and whiteouts to rescue fishermen, freighter crews and recreational boaters from Alaska&#39;s roiling waters.
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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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Despite an "alarming" 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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Water spilled into the North Sea from offshore oil and gas drilling is less of a threat to fish than previously thought, a Norwegian study showed on Thursday.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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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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By DAN JOLING  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for a rare loon that breeds in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve has been accepted for review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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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 area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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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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With 24-foot seas and 50-knot winds continuing to pound the Aleutian island where a soybean freighter cracked in half, officials Saturday could take only a few small steps toward cleaning up the massive oil spill left behind.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 10 (OneWorld) - Environmentalists are unimpressed by reports this week of a massive, new oil find in the Gulf of Mexico.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. -- An oil spill on Newfoundland&#39;s Grand Banks is larger than first reported. The Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board now says that up to 1,000 barrels of oil may have spilled into
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Ducks and geese coated in crude oil were carried to a national wildlife refuge yesterday by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska The search continues for six people lost in Alaska&#39;s Bering Sea following a Coast Guard helicopter crash but the odds of their survival are slim.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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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.