Dozens of new species in Gulf of Mexico after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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It may have been one of the world’s largest oil spill disasters but the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have had little effect on the ecosystem as dozens of new species of animals are living in the body of water.
A group of oceanographers from the research project the Deepend Consortium have been looking into the effects of the 2010 oil spill…

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March 3, 2017 at 12:35PM