Did you ever think the hair on your head could be used to protect the environment? A strange experiment done by a hair stylist gave environmentalists a new way of looking at hair.
On March 24, 1989, there was a terrible oil spill off the coast of Alaska. An oil tanker called the Exxon Valdez hit a reef and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the water. At the time, this was one of the worst environmental disasters in history.