BP oil spill residue altered building blocks of ocean life, scientists say

Oil spill disaster reduced biodiversity in sites closest to spill, report finds, as White House rolls back conservation measuresThe 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found - amid warnings that America's oceans are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.Lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in the ocean by reducing biodiversity in sites closest to the spill, which occurred when a BP drilling rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing around 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf. Continue reading...