There is a huge risk of contamination of water bodies due to the various oil exploration,
transport, and industrial operational activities that are taking place across the world. Physical …

Oil spills may involve health risks for people participating in the cleanup operations and
coastal inhabitants, given the toxicological properties of the oil components. In spite of this …

Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or
other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and …

The importance of crude oil has come at a great cost. In many developing economies of the
world, it can be described as the bitter-sweet crude for its double-edged impacts on the …

In order to characterize the state of oil spill research and describe how the field has changed
since its inception in the 1960s and since the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, we examined …

Abstract The Hebei Spirit oil spill accident occurred in December 2007, approximately 10 km
off the coast of Taean, South Korea, a location notably close to residential areas. Crude oil …

Abstract Introduction In 2010, the US Coast Guard (USCG) led a clean-up response to the
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Human studies evaluating acute and longer-term …

Background Over ten years after the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, our understanding
of long term respiratory health risks associated with oil spill response exposures is limited …

Objectives Long-term studies of oil spill responders are urgently needed as oil spills
continue to occur. To this end, we established the prospective Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil …

Background: We systematically reviewed the literature's existing knowledge on crude oil
spills and the respiratory health (RH) outcomes of clean-up workers. Methods: We searched …