Check out the recent media coverage of sustainability-related programs and practices at UNC:
Signs of oil spill pollution might be hiding underwater
The Los Angeles Times
...More than three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, resulting in a leak spewing 210,000 gallons of crude per day into the gulf, the fouled beaches and dead seabirds that are the hallmarks of catastrophic spills have yet to materialize. ..."This is such sticky oil in its emulsified and dispersed form that there are mechanisms of harm that we don't usually look at," said Charles Peterson, a professor of marine sciences at the University of North Carolina who studied the effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill on Alaska's Prince William Sound. The oil might clog the feeding organs of species such as jellyfish, he speculated.
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