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Gulf Oil Spill Killed Corals

"Nearly 2 years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the meticulous, long-term efforts of scientists finally yielded the official results: the brown, wilted, dying corals found at Mississippi Canyon lease block 294 were indeed damaged by a plume of oil from the spill. - excerpt from article in USGS' Sound Waves newsletter.

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