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Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery


losion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in the deep sea has yet to recover. A new study finds that in the first few years after the 2010 disaster, populations of octopus, squid, krill, shrimp, and lanternfish declined by at least 60 percent.

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