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<title>Our World in Data - Oil Spills</title>
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    <title>Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s</title>
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    <published>2026-02-28T07:57:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Pablo Arriagada</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/oil-spills-from-tankers-have-fallen-by-more-than-90-since-the-1970s"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/58ddbaf2-8db7-4f0e-f968-ed28d33d1900/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s</title>
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    <published>2025-08-15T04:00:00.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Veronika Samborska</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/oil-spills-from-tankers-have-fallen-to-less-than-one-thirtieth-of-the-levels-seen-in-the-1970s"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/df13e618-db2c-4629-adae-31a3adbce500/w=608"/></a>]]></summary>
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    <title>Oil Spills</title>
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    <published>2022-05-04T09:17:29.000Z</published>
    <author><name>Hannah Ritchie</name></author><author><name>Veronika Samborska</name></author><author><name>Max Roser</name></author>
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How often do oil spills happen? How did the frequency of oil spills change over time?<br/><br/><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/oil-spills"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/6c8df813-9f50-49f7-5ffe-c2b3c77f2b00/w=512"/></a>]]></summary>
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