Oil spills in the ocean have a great impact on the marine ecosystem. What is the direct consequence? A. The fish will grow faster. B. The water will become clearer. C. Many marine organisms will die. D. The sea level will rise. ...
Oil spills (泄漏) are harmful to ocean life. Lately, after an oil spill in the Australian waters, scientists said that the oil was making the life of the little blue penguins in the south of Australia. A penguin has shiny feathers (羽毛) that are covered in natural oils. The feathers ...
Oil spills are just as costly and can contaminate the oceans for thousands of years to come. Dead zones, enormous areas of oxygen deficient water were life ceases to exist, high levels of CO2 in the environment as well as spent CO2 being stored and pumped into the oceans are some of the...
Oil wastes that enter the ocean come from many sources, some being accidental spills or leaks, and some being the results of chronic and careless habits in the use of oil and oil products. Most waste oil in the ocean consists of oily stormwater drainage from cities and farms, untreated ...
Oil spills(泄露)con destroy the ocean environment because oil kills all ocean life. The world depends on oil and because there is plenty of oil off the shore in many countries, the need for oil is more important than the risk of the oil spill. However, the fact is that one ocean mista...
How Oil Spills Happen Oil is a fossil fuel.It's used in gasoline.That powers boats,cars,and trucks.It's also used to make things.Some plastics,paints,and makeups are made with oil.Oil can be found below the ocean floor.Machines drill beneath the ocean.Then the oil...
The costs of oil spills are considerable in both economic andecological terms. Oil on ocean surfaces is harmful to many forms of aquatic life because it preventssufficientamounts of sunlight from penetrating the surface, and it also reduces the level of dissolved oxygen. Crude oil ruins the insu...
Examples include the sea-surface microlayer on the ocean, or the microorganism-enriched interface in the reaction tanks of municipal waste-water treatment plants14,15. Although some recent studies show that bubble bursting can disperse the surface organic layer as submicrometer droplets into water16,...
Hermogino said the exercise aims to test their capability in responding to oil spills since the Philippine maritime territory in the South China Sea is one of the busiest routes for oil tankers. More coast guards eyed for oil spill drills It is the second time in recent days that the allege...
A pipeline connected to one of those platforms in federal waters, run by Houston-based Amplify Energy, has spilled up to 126,000 gallons (572,807 liters) of heavy crude in one of the worst oil spills in recent California history.