Mixing oil and water: tracking the sources and impacts of oil pollution in the marine environment.

From: Oceanus | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Drop by drop--that is how most oil enters the oceans. Catastrophic spills make the headlines, but it is the chronic dribble, dribble, dribble of seemingly small inputs that supplies most of the oil pollution in the world's oceans.

In recent decades scientists have made substantial progress in understanding how oil enters the oceans, what happens to it, and how it affects marine organisms and ecosystems. This knowledge has led to regulations, practices, and decisions that have helped us reduce sources of pollution, prevent and respond to spills, clean up contaminated ...

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