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...casual visitor, the chill, choppy waters of Prince William Sound show little evidence of the disaster that struck on Good Friday 1989. Nearly 11 million gal. of crude oil poured from a gash in the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez that day, forming a slick that eventually reached into the Gulf of Alaska and nearly to the Shumagin Islands, about 965 km (600 miles) away. More than 1,930 km (1,200 miles) of coastline was fouled; commercial and subsistence fishing were halted; populations of bald eagles, seabirds, otters and other animals plummeted; and at least 35 archaeological sites were sullied...
...Even more startling: parts of the gulf were actually cleaner after the war than before. Oysters caught off the coast of Bahrain, about halfway down the gulf, had lower levels of petroleum contamination than in the mid-1980s. Offshore sediments showed the same pattern. The probable explanation: sharply reduced tanker traffic more than made up for the effects of the war-related spills...
EXXON VALDEZ. The Alaska court of appeals overturned a misdemeanor conviction against Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the tanker that ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989, causing the nation's worst oil spill. The court found that the state used tainted evidence against Hazelwood, but acknowledged that its decision was likely to be "a bitter pill for many Alaskans to swallow...
...lower atmosphere rather than the other way around. The energy that would be needed to move the ozone up is about 2 1/2 times all of our current global power use. If you could take every power plant in the world, every piece of coal and every oil tanker, the energy would be insufficient -- and then you'd still have the problem of how to get the ozone up there...
Both sides claimed victory in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. had lost the Lexington plus a destroyer and a tanker; the Japanese had lost the carrier Shoho, plus a tanker and a destroyer, more aircraft (77 vs. 66) and more men (1,074 vs. 543). But in strategic terms, the key fact was that the Japanese troop transports bound for Port Moresby had to turn back...