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Oil Means More Arsenic In Seawater

Posted by timothy on from the must-cut-back-on-shrimp dept.

oxi writes "Besides the oil already spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of up to 60,000 barrels daily, a group of British scientists says one can expect to see elevated levels of arsenic as well. The research, published in the journal Water Research, showed that oil prevents naturally-occurring arsenic from being filtered out of the water by the sediment on the ocean floor."

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  1. OMG! by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well in other news every time I pee in the ocean the ph level drops too.

    This is about as valuable insight as a story above without any meaningful interpretation of what the rising level of arsenic means. How much more arsenic will there be? Will the entire ocean die? Will just a few patches of the Gulf die? Or more likely will it not make the tiniest bit of difference?