Exxon Valdez oil spill, 25 years later
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
In the early morning hours of March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker sliced into Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil into pristine Alaskan waters. It is considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters.