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Deepwater Horizon: one year on

What is the state of the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon blowout began?

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Gaskill, M. Deepwater Horizon: one year on. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.246

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