Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
'Missing Oil' from
2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor
Remember the April
2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coasts of Florida and Texas? To refresh
your memory, approximately 200 million gallons, or 757 million liters, of crude
oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. And there has been substantial amount of
oil missing even after the extensive search and cleanup effort. Now,
researchers seem to have found where the missing oil is. It’s on the sea bottom
of the gulf. Is that all right then? No. It is threatening wildlife and marine
ecosystems in a long term because worms take the sediment of the oil and fish
eat the contaminated worms. The cost of damaging environment seems very high,
doesn’t it?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this massive oil spill and its aftermath.
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