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Pollution : Prevention and Cleanup Strategies
- E.U. calls for stricter international maritime safety rules
-- European Union Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio called on the international community to make stronger commitments to maritime safety to prevent future environmental damage from oil spills on the high seas.
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- Eight holes plugged on sunken oil tanker in Spain
-- The French mini-submarine Nautile has sealed eight holes in the wreck of the sunken oil tanker Prestige, officials said this week, limiting further waves of toxic fuel from washing over Spain's northwestern coast.
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- Electronic 'tongue' to taste pollution
-- A miniature electronic "tongue" which could taste pollution in rivers is being developed by researchers at Cardiff University, UK.
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- European Council Backs Ban on Single Hull Tankers
-- No single hull oil tanker will be allowed to carry heavy fuel oil in the European Union after an agreement in the Council on the proposal presented by the European Commission. The new rule makes it compulsory to transport the most polluting petroleum products in the safest ships, and brings the European Union up to standards as strict as those in the United States for the phaseout of single hull tankers.
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- Global Marine Body Deals with Shipbreaking, Oil Spills
-- The hazards of shipbreaking, single hull oil tankers, and stowaways in ships' ballast water are on the agenda this week as the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization, the UN agency with responsibility for the safety of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships, meets in London.
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- Harbor mud microbe breaks down pcbs
-- A first strain of bacterium that breaks down tough chlorine bonds of the pollutant PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, in estuarine sediment is reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Microbiology
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- Natural approach to cleaning up toxic freeway runoff
-- "Taking a clever, low-cost and natural approach to the problem, UCLA researchers hope to prevent storm-water runoff from washing thousands of pounds of pollutants into the ocean each time it rains."
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- Plant-based waste-cleaning systems
-- Some plants naturally absorb and accumulate trace metals such as chromium, selenium, nickel, mercury, lead, copper, and arsenic.
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- Scientists Find Way to Make Ballast Water Safer
-- A technique that inhibits corrosion in ship ballast tanks also has an added benefit of stopping the spread of foreign organisms via ballast water. The method removes oxygen from the water by using nitrogen gas, presenting the much sought after "win-win" for economics and the environment.
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- The Science of Oil Spills
-- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists from diverse disciplines have responded to the April 27 spill of nearly 15,000 gallons of Number 6 fuel oil into Buzzards Bay, drawing on decades of experience studying the effects of oil spills on the marine and coastal environment.
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- WWF seek curbs on oil tankers cleaning at sea
-- Oil tankers illegally cleaning their holds at sea release up to 1.5 million tons of oil into the Mediterranean every year, 75 times the amount that seeped from the stricken tanker Erika, WWF France said.
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