Following actions at sea and submissions by Greenpeace, a worldwide ban on incinerating organochlorine waste at sea is agreed by the London Dumping Convention.
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1989 The supertanker Exxon Valdez collides with a reef off the coast of Alaska, and over 40 million litres of crude oil escape. The spill fouls hundreds of miles of coastline, kills thousands of otters, hundreds of thousands of birds and untold numbers of fish and other wildlife. It devastates the lives of subsistence and fishing communities that rely on the waters and wildlife of Prince William Sound for their survival. Greenpeace helps with the clean-up operation and documents the disaster. image 1 Greenpeace banner protesting the Exxon Valdez oil spill © Michael Lewis / Greenpeace image 2 A heavily oiled loon found dead in Kenai Fjords, Alaska after the spill © Ken Graham / Greenpeace image 3 Dead, oil-covered mother and baby otter at Homer, Alaska Otter Centre after the oil spill disaster © Ken Graham / Greenpeace
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