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Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Exxon Valdez oil spill were the top media stories in 1989. For the wildlife conservation community, the 11-million-gallon oil spill in the ...
Lawn spent a long day on board assessing the damage as oil gushed out. There would be no quick and coordinated spill response to slow the spread. Some 11 million gallons of crude would leak out of the ...
The Long Island-based captain of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker that ran aground off Alaska in 1989, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the country’s history — has died, according to ...
He routinely took on the powerful and was part of a Pulitzer-winning team at The Anchorage Daily News that investigated alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives. By Richard Sandomir A professor at ...
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in March 1989 in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, it released a record-setting 11 million gallons of crude oil into a uniquely vulnerable environment, ...
It may be a quarter century since the Exxon Valdez disaster, yet blobs of oil along Alaska's coastline look as fresh as if they'd been spilled less than two weeks ago. This remaining petroleum might ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on March 24, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran ...
]. Environmental chemist Jeff Short said that the remaining oil "has not biodegraded nearly as much as we thought it would." What’s more, data by his group at NOAA (and others) have shown that the oil ...
Twenty-five years ago, on March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground off the coast of Alaska, eventually spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine waters of Prince ...
Exxon Valdez oil spill workers use pressure washers to wash oil from the beach at Smith Island on Alaska's Prince William Sound.Anchorage Daily News / MCT / Landov Twenty years since the Exxon Valdez ...