08-11-2015 16:22 via krqe.com

Study: Reproduction of dolphins hurt by BP oil spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dolphins living in a Louisiana bay polluted by BP’s massive 2010 offshore oil spill have had a very difficult time giving birth long after their bay was covered in slicks, a new study shows.
The government study is the latest by a team of scientists that has tracked the health of a population of common bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay, an estuary south of New Orleans covered in heavy slicks after BP’s April 2010 oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.
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