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2/09/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1034-2/9/2015

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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