Gulf Spill Surpasses Exxon Valdez Spill as Worst in U.S. History President Obama called the Gulf Coast spill an "unprecedented disaster" as estimates for the leaking oil surpassed the Exxon Valdez ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

In 1995, a research program was initiated to address population-level responses of sea ducks (particularly harlequin ducks and Barrow’s goldeneyes) to the 1989 oil spill off the Exxon Valdez in Prince ...

Roy Dalthorp helped clean up the rocky shores of Prince William Sound after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, producing what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Today, with that ...

and that’s how I happened to volunteer during the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill. We wanted to trade in a spooky horse, so my sister Miki walked him out on the 150-mile trail while I ran ...

Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with the Exxon Valdez spill ... after the new disaster had once again raised the question of how long the impact of a spill can last, he ...

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From the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010, these environmental disasters have taught us invaluable lessons about the importance of robust safety measures and ...

Roy Dalthorp helped clean up the rocky shores of Prince William Sound after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, producing what was then the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Today, with that ...