Pollution
Impacts of oil spills in the Arctic can last for decades
Forty years after an oil spill in the Arctic, the beaches look normal to bare eyes – but are they?
Tag: oil
Chemistry
A New Way to Make Hydrocarbons
Marine scientists used isotopic fingerprinting techniques to discover a new way that the hydrocarbons in oil and gas are formed.
Microbiology
Enormous Source and Sink of Hydrocarbons Discovered in the Ocean
A team of scientists just discovered an enormous new source of hydrocarbons to the ocean: cyanobacteria. But what does their…
Biology
Can you smell that? Oil spills change stingray’s sense of smell
It may have occurred 8 years ago, but scientists are still talking about the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill. This…