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The lost legacy of the last great oil spill

Nature volume 466, pages 304–305 (2010)Cite this article

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Some ecosystems bounced back after the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill, but research quickly withered.

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Schrope, M. The lost legacy of the last great oil spill. Nature 466, 304–305 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466304a

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