The Gulf of Mexico oil spill set records for its size and depth. A year on, the biggest impacts seem to be where they are hardest to spot.
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Mark Schrope is as a freelancer writer in Melbourne, Florida.
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Schrope, M. Oil spill: Deep wounds. Nature 472, 152–154 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/472152a
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