A new study reveals that oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles by hitching a ride on floating ocean debris. This finding implies that oil spills are not just local disasters; toxic hydrocarbons can cross entire ocean basins on plastics, contaminating remote ecosystems far from the source.
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