{"id":5253,"date":"2015-02-04T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2015-02-04T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T11:30:42","slug":"oil-from-2010-bp-spill-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Oil from 2010 BP spill found at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oil from 2010 BP spill found at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico<\/a><\/h3>\n

A new study suggests that up to 38 million liters of crude oil from the\u00a02010 BP oil spill<\/a>\u00a0is resting on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, posing a threat to the local ecosystem.<\/p>\n

The findings have shed light on where ‘missing’ oil from the spill ended up — a quandary that puzzled U.S. government and BP officials during massive cleanup efforts in April, 2010.<\/p>\n

Of the nearly 5 million barrels of oil spilled into the ocean, around 2 million remained unaccounted for, years after the disaster.<\/p>\n

Florida researchers took 62 sediment samples from a 24,000 square kilometre space around the site of the BP oil spill and discovered that about 8,400 square km are covered with oil from spill.<\/p>\n

“This is going to affect the Gulf for years to come,” Jeff Chanton, the study’s lead researcher and a professor of chemical oceanography at Florida State University, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Fish will likely ingest contaminants because worms ingest the sediment, and fish eat the worms. It’s a conduit for contamination into the food web.”<\/p>\n

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Oil from 2010 BP spill found at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico A new study suggests that up to 38 million liters of crude oil from the\u00a02010 BP oil spill\u00a0is resting on the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, posing a threat to the local ecosystem. The findings have shed light on where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3156,393,588,1523],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-deepwater-horizon","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-oil","tag-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}