 Garbage Found In Beached Whale Biologists who examined a gray whale that died after getting stranded on a West Seattle beach say it had a large amount of garbage in its stomach (04-20-2010) |
 Oceans Of Trash Attempts to locate a missing airplane that crashed have highlighted the problem of oceanic trash. Huge gyres of garbage the size of Texas, including a lot of plastic that takes ages to decompose, make this pollution a growing problem for both humans and marine creatures. (06-06-2009) |
 New York Sues Exxon Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo moved today to sue Exxon Mobil and four other companies over millions of gallons of oil lying under the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn and to repair environmental damage inflicted on the nearby Newtown Creek. (02-08-2007) |
| Valdez Oil Spill Unresolved Crude oil is still polluting Alaskan waters almost 18 years after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, according to a study by US government scientists.
The disclosure came as Exxon Mobil posted the largest annual profit by a US company, $39.5bn, and only weeks after a court decision annulling many of the financial penalties originally levied against the corporation.
Predictions that the pollution would have disappeared by now have proved to be inaccurate, and the damaged ecosystem is struggling to recover. (02-03-2007) |
 Vanishing Tropical Nation A World Bank report found that up to 80 percent of North Tarawa, as well as more than 50 percent of the densely populated South Tarawa, could be under water by 2050 as a result of global warming. (01-28-2007) |
 Dirty Beaches On The Rise Pollution-related beach closings and advisories increased in the U.S. in 2004. Coastal water pollution is likely to worsen further under current federal policies. (07-30-2005) |
| Chinese Riot Over Pollution Despite a heavy police presence intended to intimidate protesters, angry villagers in a Shanghai suburb are waging a pitched battle with authorities over environmental threats posed by a pharmaceuticals plant. (07-18-2005) |
 Fuzzy Thinking from American Greenpeace Greenpeace USA has been roundly criticized for its vacation prize program because it will contribute to air pollution and the greenhouse effect. (05-29-2005) |
 Ocean Pollution Critical The number of dead zones in the world's seas has doubled every decade since 1960, as a result of increasing pollution. The United Nations Environment Programme says that there are now 146 of them worldwide, mainly around the coasts of rich countries. (05-15-2005) |
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