… The effects of oil spills can have wide ranging impacts that are often portrayed by the media as long lasting environmental disasters. Such perceptions are understandable as they are often fuelled by distressing…
… oil during high tide periods and also the smothering effect of oil at low tide. The impacts of oil spills in shallow inshore waters and shorelines are difficult to predict due to the sheer number of habitat…
… may be observed on the seabed. The types of organisms that are commonly impacted in an open sea spill include; plankton, fish, seabirds and marine mammals and reptiles. Plankton The upper pelagic zone…
…An oiled mangrove following a spill in the Philippines, August 2008. Oil smothers the mangrove's root systems preventing the exchange of gases and leading to asphyxiation.
