# Marine life has not recovered more than 16 years after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster

https://mins.news/en/item/109096

- CBC News, 2026-10-21 08:00 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/deepwater-horizon-marine-life-decline-gulf-of-mexico-9.7388794?cmp=rss

> Researchers used trawling, sound waves and DNA analysis to find persistent declines of around 60 per cent in some species in the Gulf of Mexico in the years since the disaster. Wildlife there remains in serious decline and has not recovered.

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