Bay St. Louis, Mississippi: Want to know the future of the oil-stained Gulf of Mexico ecosystem? Look first to its muddy, polluted past.
The recent ecological history of the Gulf gives scientists reason for hope.
In an extensive survey of Gulf of Mexico researchers by the Associated Press, at least 10 of them separately volunteered the same word to describe the body of water: "resilient."
This is buttressed by a government report that claims that all but 53 million gallons (200 million litres) of the leaked oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon well are gone.
The report issued on Wednesday says the clean-up extracted a lot of it, but the natural processes that break up, evaporate and dissolve oil took care of 84 million gallons (317 million litres) — more than twice the amount human efforts removed.
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