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Potential impacts of an impending oil spill

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Our understanding of the impacts of oil spills highlights the urgency of preventing them. A new study considers public health and other effects of an oil spill from an abandoned Red Sea tanker.

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  1. School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Chang, S.E. Potential impacts of an impending oil spill. Nat Sustain 4, 1023–1024 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00778-4

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