Study highlights a sudden and sustained decline in deep-pelagic life in a large oceanic ecosystem following the Macondo spill

The study, highlighted in Wired and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that animal populations—including octopus, krill, squid, and shrimp—declined by 60 to 85 percent in the three and a half years after the DWH spill, with few signs of recovery since.

Wired summary

PNAS study

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