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Research led by a team at the University of Georgia shows that the chemical agents used to remove oil from the ocean’s surface after the 2010 BP oil spill didn’t fully degrade the oil and instead suppressed microbes in the water that would have been more effective in cleaning up the oil.
Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
A Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil capsized and sank off Manila on Thursday, authorities said, as they seek to contain a spill stretching several kilometres. IMAGES
Hundreds of people with LGBTQI flags attend the annual Pride Parade in Sarajevo. IMAGES
Fire rages at an asphalt storage facility of an oil refinery located on a road west of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. IMAGES