OIL SPILLS
March 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
ECOLOGICAL damage from oil spills is more long-term than most experts have assumed, according to University of North Carolina academic Charles H Peterson, who examined studies of the 1989 Exxon Valdez clean-up for the journal Science. He found oil has persisted in submarine reservoirs and species mortality rates have increased, even from usually non-lethal amounts of oil.
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ECOLOGICAL damage from oil spills is more long-term than most experts have assumed, according to University of North Carolina academic Charles H Peterson, who examined studies of the 1989 Exxon Valdez clean-up for the journal Science. He found oil has persisted in submarine reservoirs and species mortality rates have increased, even from usually non-lethal amounts of oil.
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