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...amazingly, less than two weeks after the ship ran aground on a trip from Norway to Canada, much of the visible evidence of the spill had disappeared. The water in the immediate area around the wreck still had patches of oil churning below the surface. But farther out, the sea had returned to its azure state, and there was no spreading slick. While some beaches were stained by puddles of ooze characteristic of spills, the damage to the coast was far from catastrophic...
...Shetlands accident and its aftermath demonstrate the remarkable ability of nature to repair itself -- even when confronted by an oil spill, one of humanity's more dangerous assaults on Mother Earth. The incident also shows that oil spills are not all the same; alarmist forecasts of ecological devastation, which invariably come after a big spill, are often off the mark...
...Spills are usually almost two-dimensional in their initial stage: the oil remains in a layer on the surface in one location. It spreads out slowly and sinks only gradually. But in the churning sea off the Shetlands, the spill quickly became three-dimensional and spread rapidly over a wide area -- at which point, some scientists argue, the concentration of oil is no longer dangerously high. The sea contains bacteria and other microbes that will naturally break down the oil droplets until they are eventually reduced to little more than carbon dioxide and water...
...radioactive spill last Wednesday at the Medical School closed a research building for more than 10 hours and forced workers to evacuate the site...
...Komsomolets also carried two nuclear torpedoes containing 28 lbs. of plutonium with a half-life of 24,000 years and toxicity so high that a speck can kill. Russian experts warned that the plutonium could spill into the water and contaminate vast reaches of ocean as early...