Sentences with phrase «oil seep communities»
We have not yet been to those depths to survey the communities that we know about — mostly natural oil seep communities, some within 6 miles of the Deepwater Horizon — to see if they have been impacted.
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Among their many activities, the Techbridge girls at John Swett wrote and produced an educational video on the phases of the moon, launched a campaign to educate the community about the harmful effects of motor oil and lawn fertilizer runoff seeping into San Francisco Bay, and studied the effect of ultraviolet light on plant growth.
As Bill Broad reported in The Times in June, the gulf seabed is home to communities of organisms that thrive on petrochemical seeps and scientists are split on whether deep drifting oil from the Macondo well poses a significant environmental risk.
In addition, the chemicals may potentially seep into groundwater, endangering residents of communities situated near oil and gas fields.