Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

Spotlighting the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In advance of the Feb. 27 arguments in the punitive damages case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, an effort has been launched to remind the public (if not the ...

The Stewart C. Meyer Library in Harker Heights hold classes designed to accommodate home-schooled students and Wednesday the ...

About 10,000 gallons of crude oil is still buried under the shoreline where the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, and continues to affect wildlife, a group of scientists said. Jeff Short, a ...

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The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ...

Every day, millions of gallons of oil move from the Arctic through the trans-Alaska pipeline to the small coastal town of Valdez, 600 miles away. There, high above the waters of Prince William Sound, ...

Fifty years ago, North America's most powerful recorded earthquake struck Alaska. With an epicenter in Prince William Sound, the magnitude-9.2 earthquake demolished communities in the state's most ...

Part 1, Sick workers. Exposed: a cover up of mass chemical poisoning -- Exposure and health problems -- Buried: workers' health claims -- An occupational health disaster -- Part 2, Sound truth.

RedRover, a Sacramento-based animal welfare organization, celebrated its 300th deployment on Wednesday, providing vital ...