It was the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Since the accident, all tankers are required to have double hulls. Some 32,000 people, including commercial fishers, food processors and Alaska Natives ...

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up thousands of tons of fuel oil.

Alaska’s population of common murres took a big hit in 1989 from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It is estimated that the spill killed 250,000 birds, and most were common murres. The common murre ...

A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim ... was one of the many species harmed by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Nearly 1000 otters were found dead in the ...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf ... In recognition of this shared history, the Gulf Research Program (GRP) will host a workshop series to bring ...

showed that addition of fertilizers can increase the rate but not the extent of oil degradation. Trials in Prince William Sound in Alaska, USA, after the Exxon Valdez spill have shown that this ...

The leaked diesel oil drifted ... of the spill and geography of the river mean it will be difficult to clean up. Greenpeace has compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.

Russia has formed a new government commission to coordinate clean up of the biggest spill of oil products in the Black Sea in recent history ... of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989.