Cruise ships deliver chemical cocktails to Caribbean marine life: Colonial infrastructures in feral waters

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This is a story of a chemical compound called TBT (Tributyltin). Since the mid-20th century, this chemical product has found its way into the global seas in various concentrations. The formula of TBT is well-known by now and its use is banned. Its effects still linger, and I first encountered TBT in the harbor of St Thomas on the US Virgin Islands as a cause for hormone disorder in snails....
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2020
UdgiverStanford University Press
StatusUdgivet - 2020

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