Time: Earlier this month the federal government released a report on the fate of the 4.9 million barrels of oil that had spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Interior Department estimated that 74% of the oil had either been directly captured, burned or skimmed, evaporated at the surface, been consumed by micro-organisms, or dissolved or dispersed into microscopic droplets under the ......
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Invisible Oil From Spill Could Still Pose Major Threat to Gulf
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 17th, 2010
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