San Francisco port officials succeeded Friday in dislodging the decaying carcass of a gray whale that got stuck under a pier along the city's waterfront.
Local and federal agencies are resuming the search for three missing tribal fishermen missing since their boat capsized in the Columbia River this week. The search had been suspended on Thursday due to bad weather.
Since the government reported last year that liquefied natural gas spilled from a tanker could ignite a fire intense enough to burn people a mile away, researchers have tried to determine how much more devastating the damage might be from new ships that are twice as large.