Hydrocarbon pollution along the coast of Galicia shot up five years after the Prestige oil spill
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:31
in Earth & Climate
The results of a recent study by the University of Santiago de Compostela on Kentish Plover eggs has shown that there was a unexpected increase in hydrocarbon levels along the coast of Galicia five years after the Prestige oil spill. Worsened in previous years by works to remove the wreck, pollution levels began to rise again in the summer of 2006 along with numerous forest fires.