Oil from Deepwater Horizon disaster entered food chain in the Gulf of Mexico
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
Since the explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2010, scientists have been working to understand the impact the disaster has had on the environment. For months, crude oil gushed into the water before the well was capped. A new study confirms that oil from the Macondo well made it into the ocean's food chain through the tiniest of organisms, zooplankton.