Month: January 2018

Oil spills: Improving emergency responses through ocean observing systems

By unesco On 6 January 2018, the collision in the East China Sea between a freighter and an oil tanker carrying 136,000 tons of “gas condensate”, a particularly explosive type of oil, caused a major spill of potentially dangerous proportions. As authorities scramble to …read more Source:: Oil spills: Improving emergency responses through ocean observing …