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Oil spill cruise finds field of dead coral

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Scientific expedition assesses deep-sea damage in the Gulf of Mexico.

A team of researchers surveying the depths of the Gulf of Mexico have found a large area of dead or dying corals and associated animals. Though the scientists caution that they cannot say definitively what caused the damage, they believe the limited evidence available points to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the culprit.

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Schrope, M. Oil spill cruise finds field of dead coral. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.589

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