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Deepwater Horizon oil spill: brown pelican

A worker in a white protective suit and cap handles oil-soaked debris on a polluted shoreline while cleaning up an oil spill at Ao Phrao beach, Ko Samet Island, Thailand.

Fireboats battle a blaze on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, April 2010.

Exxon Valdez oil spill at Naked Island

Cleaning oil spills with renewable wood sponges

The Ecological Disaster of Oil Spills in the Niger Delta

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