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Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted bluefin tuna

Posted by sbitkoff on Monday, 03 October 2016 in Oil Spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was one of the largest environmental disasters in history, releasing roughly 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For Atlantic bluefin tuna, it occurred at the worst time of year, during peak spawning season, when eggs and larval fish that are parti...

Deepwater Horizon and Gulf dolphin deaths

Posted by jdunker on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 in Oil Spill

As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure accordi...

Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Oil Spill

One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear – microbes matter! Despite vast differences in the impacted marine ecosystems and the circumst...