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Deep Gulf of Mexico still unrecovered sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon

Original: Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, the deep Gulf of Mexico still has not recovered. A study published Monday in PNAS

A new study published Monday in PNAS finds the deep Gulf of Mexico has still not recovered sixteen years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Researchers report that fish numbers in waters from the surface down to 5,000 feet, including the ocean's twilight zone, fell 63.5% in the year after the disaster, and populations have not bounced back since. The findings renew concern about the long-term ecological toll of major oil spills.

Why now: A new PNAS study published Monday documents lasting ecological damage from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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• Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, the deep Gulf of Mexico still has not recovered. A study published Monday in PNAS found that in the waters from the surface down to 5,000 feet, which take in the ocean's "twilight zone", fish numbers fell 63.5% from the year after the 2010… · i47i@social.i47i.cc · 3

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