Coastal estuaries, port basins and lagoons that have relatively moderate ocean currents and winds are more likely to accumulate pollutants. Offshore regions and undersea canyons can be used as conduits for transporting pollutants from the continent to the seabed. It is particularly noteworthy that the...
Air pollution and sea pollution are both impacting human health and all the natural environments on Earth. These complex interactions in the biosphere are
The new plunge into the ocean has come about in part because technologies – from ocean drilling and offshore wind turbines to desalination plants and factory trawlers – have made it possible. “A lot of offshore industries were unthinkable even just a few decades ago,” says Jouffray. And...
Furthermore, offshore oil and gas activities can have a seriously detrimental impact on marine habitats. The impact of oil spills on wildlife is well known, as are the harmful effects of pollutants once they reach the shoreline. There is, however, a much wider range of other environmental ...
Inadequacy in the management of waste imparted the microplastic pollution in freshwater ecosystems (Free et al. 2014). The limited size and low densities of microplastics make them dispersed by winds and waves and are thus ubiquitous (Shahul Hamid et al. 2018). Plastic debrises drifted along ...
Polluting the Oceans: This is a radar image of an offshore drilling field about 150 km (93 miles) west of Bombay, India, in the Arabian Sea. The dark streaks are extensive oil slicks surrounding many of the drilling platforms, which appear as bright white spots. Radar images are useful ...
“Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution: Evidence from Ports,” by Kenneth Gillingham and Pei Huang (NBER Working Papers,2021). “Cleaner Air Has Contributed One-Fifth of U.S. Maize and Soybean Yield Gains since 1999,” by David B. Lobell and Jennifer A. Burney (Envi...
Chapter 6: Offshore Oil and Gas DrillingGo To Chapter 6For over a hundred years, we have relied on fossil fuels for almost all our energy needs. And, we still do today! To supply this demand, oil and gas are pumped out from deep beneath the seabed and transported all around the ...
Senior forecaster Brett Harrison from the Bureau of Meteorology said Thursday’s rainfall, which occurred across the state, has cleared off shore but had been followed by “very cold” west to south-westerly winds. The cool conditions are expected to last into early next week but Mr Harrison ...
onshore winds, while the direction of transport correlated with the circular currents in the bay. A few of the tar balls migrated on shore at some point during the experiment, but the majority stayed in the subtidal region of the bay, and several others were transported further offshore. ...