1.   Along Old Place Creek, where the spill killed all the grass and much else, sparrows, ducks, geese and many species of wading birds have returned.

2.   Bruno Rebelle, the director general of the environmental organization Greenpeace France pointed out that the Erika spill has already killed thousands more birds than the Amoco spill.

3.   Investigators said the spills killed thousands of fish and birds.

4.   Much of the tonnage is in petroleum and chemical products and an accidental spill could kill dozens of cranes and destroy the habitat.

5.   One spill killed thousands of fish.

6.   The Santa Clara River spill killed several hundred fish and birds.

7.   The spill killed thousands of lobsters and hundreds of birds and fouled beaches and required millions of dollars to clean up.

8.   The spill killed fished along a mile-long stretch of the Omai River.

9.   In May, a minor spill killed hundreds of fish and other marine life.

10.   That accident came six weeks after a cyanide spill killed tons of fish in the Tisza River in Hungary and Yugoslavia.