Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery
- An oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
- Kris Krüg via Wikipedia Sixteen years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in the deep sea has yet to recover.
- A new study finds that in the first few years after the 2010 disaster, populations of octopus, squid, krill, shrimp, and lanternfish declined by at least 60 percent.
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- An oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
- Kris Krüg via Wikipedia Sixteen years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in the deep sea has yet to recover.
- A new study finds that in the first few years after the 2010 disaster, populations of octopus, squid, krill, shrimp, and lanternfish declined by at least 60 percent.
Sources: Yale