Excerpts from BP oil spill: death and devastation and it's just the start, The Guardian:
David Hollander, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida who helped discover one of the plumes, said: "It may be due to the application of the dispersants that a portion of the petroleum has extracted itself from the crude and is now incorporated into the waters with solvents and detergents."
He said there could be knock-on impacts on organisms further up the food chain. "We think there could be both short-term and long-term implications."
Read the article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/31/bp-oil-spill-death-impact
