The BP oil spill, two years later: Natural recovery far greater than expected
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
This Friday, April 20, will mark two years since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused vast quantities of crude oil to flow into the Gulf of Mexico. But despite the size of the spill, "the natural recovery is far greater than what anybody hoped when it happened," said a professor of biology. "The fears of most people – that there would be a catastrophic collapse of the ecosystem in the Gulf – never materialized."