Signs of BP’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Persist Over a Decade Later

By kris krüg – Flickr: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – Gulf of Mexico, CC BY-SA 2.0,

Fiddler crabs build their burrows in beaches and the muck of saltwater wetlands. Usually, those holes serve as the crabs’ home and provide each crustacean shelter and a quick escape from predators. But in some long-abandoned fiddler crab burrows along Louisiana’s Gulf coast, you’ll find something else: Residues of crude oil.

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