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Longest man-made toxic oil spill started 84 years ago and still has 500 more years to go

USS Arizona went down in the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941, carrying nearly 5,000 tonnes of oil in its tanks. This oil has been leaking for more than 80 years, a new study confirmed, and yet the tank ...
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USS Arizona provides blueprint for addressing oil leakage at thousands of WWII shipwrecks

The USS Arizona offers a unique insight into how oil behaves over decades in low-oxygen, submerged conditions, informing modern spill response strategies and environmental risk assessments. "When ...