The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989)

This esingle, comprised of stories from The New York Times, is an exploration of the environmental disaster, in which the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground on Bligh Reef in March 1989 and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The spill was the worst that had occurred up to that point in American history, damaging more than 1,300 miles of shoreline, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of people in the region and killing hundreds of thousands of birds and marine animals.