Sunshine is making Deepwater Horizon oil stick around

Nearly a decade after the spill, oxygen-rich by-products don’t seem to be going anywhere

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JUST ADD SUNLIGHT  Oil swirls at the water’s surface after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Sunlight transformed the oil molecules on the surface into new molecules that are still sticking around.

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Sunlight shapes oil spills’ long-term legacies.