New research shows Western Amazon under threat from oil pollution

Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 18:30 in Earth & Climate

A new study of pollution records indicates that the Western Amazon, an area of unparalleled biological and cultural diversity, may have been contaminated by widespread oil pollution over a 30-year period. This work will be presented at the Goldschmidt conference in Sacramento, California

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