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Decades After The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Local Dolphins Are Still Suffering – ScienceAlert
An oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana killed eleven workers on 20 April 2010. The world then watched helplessly as BP’s oil gushed out into the Gulf of…
An oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana killed eleven workers on 20 April 2010. The world then watched helplessly as BP’s oil gushed out into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, killing untold millions of marine animals.
Dolphins that survived one of the worst environmental disasters ever, still appear to be suffering the effects over a decade later.
Comparing populations of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) of Barataria Bay in Louisiana that live within the area of oil exposure…
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