Nov 16, 2016

BP Deepwater Horizon oil in land-animal food chain

A team examined the feathers and digestive tract contents of seaside sparrows - measuring signature carbon from spilled oil. They say it "Is the first demonstration that oil from the spill made it into the" food chain of land animals. Researchers analysed contaminated sediments to identify a chemical "Fingerprint" from Deepwater Horizon. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill released an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of oil into the northern Gulf of Mexico. Prof Andrea Bonisoli Alquati, who led the research at Louisiana State University, said: "These results are consistent with the incorporation of Deepwater Horizon oil into the tissues of the exposed birds."

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