2014 Lake Minchumina — In March 1989 a Cat tractor opened the trail from Minchumina to Nenana, and that’s how I happened to volunteer during the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill.
A potential spill from the Sounion could be almost four times larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which saw 2,100km (1,300 miles) of coastline contaminated after a tanker ran aground off ...
(Illustration by Tim Richardson) 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 ...