A panel of 22 researchers in the US, whose paper was published April 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Bioscience, noted that the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was unlike any other. Although the blowout occurred at unprecedented depths and released enormous quantities of oil (an estimated 4.9 million barrels or 206 million gallons), the response to cleaning up and containing the oil followed a framework that assumed the oil’s behaviour would mimic previous shallow-water and surface spills....

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