Deep Sea Life in Gulf of Mexico Shows Little Recovery 16 Years After Oil Spill

• Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, deep sea life in the Gulf of Mexico shows minimal signs of recovery.
• Scientists monitoring the deep ocean near the disaster site found that animal populations declined by as much as 80 percent.
• Across hundreds of miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico, a deep-water ecosystem collapsed after the 2011 spill, and recovery is uncertain.
• The spill released more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.