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A huge oil slick in the Southern Atlantic is threatening to wipe out the world’s largest colony of the endangered Northern Rockhopper penguin and other rare species, including the Speckled petrel. The slick was caused last week when the oil tanker the MS Oliva ran into Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan [...] The entire article ain’t pretty, and doesn’t mention what the EFFECT of this oil covered bottom is on the food chain… worth researching. “Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientists video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isnt degrading [...]
“Its starting to sound like a tremendous amount of oil. And we havent even sampled close to the wellhead yet,” she says. via Scientists Find Thick Layer Of Oil On Seafloor : NPR. [...]
Remember when the media, and then the government, announced that all the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill was gone, and then we all rejoiced because the troubles of those sad weathered Cajun dudes Anderson Cooper kept confronting us with were finally over, and then Pegasus came to my house and asked [...] |
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