Gulf of Mexico deep sea may need decades to recover from oil spill

Mongabay
By Rhett ButlerNov 20, 2013, 6:16 pm80 pts
The catastrophic explosion that spewed some five million barrels of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 will take a heavy toll in the ocean’s lowest layers for years to come. That’s the stark conclusion of seafloor research conducted six months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The study,…

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