The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was not a short-lived catastrophe. Over 10 years after one of the largest environmental disasters in human history, a sticky oil residue still coats some marshland in the Gulf of Mexico, a new report reveals. Its imp
Now shorelines along the northern Gulf have been similarly impacted by a sticky substance that resembles the composition of moderate to heavy crude oil.
In the summer of 2011, a year after the spill, researchers found most of the crude oil compounds had been substantially altered by evaporation, dissolution, photochemical oxidations, and microbial degradation. "The important point about oil spills is that the oil's compounds are a type of material that can be degraded by sunlight and marine bacteria , in contrast to other types of pollutants such as the chlorinated pesticides like DDT,""Oil spills release lots of chemicals quickly and most damage from oil spills occurs fairly soon after the spill."But that doesn't mean the damage stops there.
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