Deep sea ecosystem may take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon spill
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 08:31
in Earth & Climate
The deep-sea soft-sediment ecosystem in the immediate area of the 2010's Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will likely take decades to recover from the spill's impacts, according to a scientific paper reported in the online scientific journal PLoS One.