PLOS Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:34:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Hydrocarbon Drilling Impacts Aquatic Life https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrocarbon-drilling-impacts-aquatic-life-20131108/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hydrocarbon-drilling-impacts-aquatic-life-20131108/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:34:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43308 According to new research published in November in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, Joshua Thienpont and colleagues at Queen’s University discovered that drilling sumps that are related to hydrocarbon extraction can cause major issues with aquatic ecosystems. Although they are a major source of energy and combustible fuel, hydrocarbons are a big source of greenhouse […]

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