It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has never been retrieved. Maritime NZ had been recommended since 2019 to survey the Niagara shipwreck to work out how much oil is ...

The oil spill has leaked millions of gallons ... nearly 12,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil have spilled out into the Gulf of Mexico after the powerful winds of Hurricane Ivan knocked over a Taylor ...

Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

Documents reveal a World War II era shipwreck could trigger a $200 million oil spill clean up but the government ... It was sunk by Germany in the Hauraki Gulf but decades later its oil has ...

Only one dead piping plover has been collected, but oil pollution has soiled the imperiled plover's critical habitat on the Chandeleur Islands. Approximately 6,000 sea turtles have likely been harmed ...

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th ...

Documents reveal the RMS Niagara shipwreck could cause a $200 million oil spill clean-up ... naval cruiser Orion in the Hauraki Gulf – the first act of war against New Zealand by Nazi Germany.

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