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Oil spilled in Gulf of Mexico causes heart problems in developing tuna

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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tuna-larvae-oil-spill-toxins-20140324,0,3256025.story
Oil spilled in Gulf of Mexico causes heart problems in developing tuna

By Louis Sahagun

March 24, 2014, 1:30 p.m.

There?s more bad news about the effects of oil spills on warm-water predators, including Atlantic bluefin tuna, already one of the most threatened fish in the seas.

Oil spills such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may cause serious heart defects in developing fish embryos, according to a study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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