Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill Still Affecting Wildlife
The Exxon-Valdez oil spill
is still regarded as one of the world's most devestating human-caused
contamination events, and the effects on wildlife populations and communities
have been debated by biologists, ecologists and the oil industry since 1989.
Scientists have now discovered that lingering oil from the spill is still being
ingested by wildlife more than 20 years after the disaster. The research,
published in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, uses
biomarkers to reveal long-term exposure in harlequin ducks and demonstrates how
the consequences of oil spills are measured in decades rather than years. KCHU's
Erik Wander has more:
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