Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

Close  /  ← → Search Search Yale Environment 360 Published at the Yale School of the Environment Explore Search About E360 E360 Digest October 20, 2026 Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery An oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Kris Krüg via Wikipedia Sixteen years after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig unleashed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, life in th