12 Sep 2014 An American and an Ecuadorian are inspired to help Ecuador heal from decades of drilling and oil spills. Here & Now's Sacha Pfeiffer tells the story of David Poritz of Amherst, Massachusetts, and Hugo Lucitante of Ecuador 23 Dec 2015 Researchers suggests oil spill's impact reached beyond Gulf of Mexico of Mexico, Caribbean, northern South America, and western Africa. In the wake of the recent Galapagos oil spill comes more bad news from South America. An oil rig, considered the world's largest, sank last week some 75 miles off the coast of Rio - and cruise This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, 256 Imperial gallons, 7.33 barrels, or 1165 litres.This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil; actual values can range Chile oil spill: 40,000 litres of diesel spilled into sea off Patagonia a region that encompasses the southern tip of South America and spans both Chile and Argentina. (2,800km) south of Forty-thousand liters (approximately 10,600 gallons) of diesel oil have spilled into the waters of Chile's Patagonia, a biodiversity hotspot at the tip of South America. The Chilean navy confirmed the oil spill Saturday after receiving a call from CAP, a mining company, informing it of a spill from its terminal on Guarello Island Deepwater horizon—the lasting impact of America's largest oil spill. by Benjamin Prueitt, University of South Florida
2 Aug 2019 An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the of oil were poured off the South American coast in less than two weeks. 10 Mar 2016 Ecuador has “the worst environmental record in South America,” “Had the oil spill occurred in the U.S., it could have proceeded much faster 12 Oct 2019 Answer 31 of 63: A mysterious oil spill that has polluted at least 150 South America; Brazil; State of Bahia (BA); Salvador; Salvador Travel 30 Apr 2010 The key lesson from the Exxon Valdez is that the oil spill continues to have an And tourism spending decreased by 8 percent in south central
20 Oct 2019 Latin America & Caribbean · Latin America & Caribbean A man works to remove an oil spill on Muro Alto beach in Tamandare, Pernambuco 1 Nov 2019 Oil has washed up on 200 beaches and the Brazilian authorities are investigating . Latin America & Caribbean The source of the oil spill washing up on thousands of kilometres of Brazil's coastline over the past few weeks
21 Nov 2017 When they heard there had been another oil spill, people from the sent a letter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking for 12 Sep 2014 An American and an Ecuadorian are inspired to help Ecuador heal from decades of drilling and oil spills. Here & Now's Sacha Pfeiffer tells the story of David Poritz of Amherst, Massachusetts, and Hugo Lucitante of Ecuador
The World's Worst Oil Spills. The Persian Gulf oil spill, the worst oil spill in history, caused the release of between 5 and 10 million barrels of oil (as much as 300 million gallons) into the Persian Gulf in 1991. The damage was far reaching, spoiling vast tracts of coastal habitat in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as having catastrophic Oil spills have also played a significant role in near extinction of several species of fish and marine animals. For example, Atlantic bluefin tuna and dwarf seahorse became nearly extinct as a result of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are the 10 worst oil spills in the World history