Sunlight helps clean up oil spills in the ocean more than previously thought
Solar radiation may have dissolved up to 17 percent of the surface oil from Deepwater Horizon

On April 28, 2010, eight days after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, this U.S. Coast Guard boat collected spilled oil. Sunlight may have helped dissolve 3 to 17 percent of the surface oil, researchers say.
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