Off West Africa’s coast, a sea of oil spills goes unreported

Mongabay
Dec 6, 2021, 1:24 pm187 pts
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig flooded the Gulf of Mexico with 4 million barrels of oil in 2010, the catastrophe was headline news across the world for months. A new study of satellite images taken between 2002 and 2012 suggests that it may have been dwarfed by the amount of oil spilled into…

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