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An official update last week revealed 93 miles of shoreline are still suffering "moderate to heavy" oil pollution and 7% of the gulf's fishing area remains shut.

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For example, we've learned that some bugs that inhabit the gulf's waters have been effective in gobbling up the stuff the blown wellhead spewed into their home turf.

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Their stronghold is Benghazi, the second-biggest city, at the gulf's eastern end.

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For example, we've learned that some bugs that inhabit the gulf's waters have been effective in gobbling up the stuff the blown wellhead spewed into their home turf.

Bill Chameides: BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!! Bill Chameides 2011

It was among the first peer-reviewed studies of oil swirling beneath the gulf's surface, and it revealed not a black cloud, but a patch of gulf that looked as clear as spring water.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010

Since then, they said, all that oil was unlikely to have been consumed by the gulf's crop of hydrocarbon-eating microbes.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010

MacDonald said that the government makes too-optimistic assumptions about how much oil is breaking down under the gulf's surface, and that its report didn't mention the natural gas that gushed out of BP's Macondo well along with the oil.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010

It was among the first peer-reviewed studies of oil swirling beneath the gulf's surface, and it revealed not a black cloud, but a patch of gulf that looked as clear as spring water.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010

MacDonald said that the government makes too-optimistic assumptions about how much oil is breaking down under the gulf's surface, and that its report didn't mention the natural gas that gushed out of BP's Macondo well along with the oil.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010

Since then, they said, all that oil was unlikely to have been consumed by the gulf's crop of hydrocarbon-eating microbes.

Scientists report undersea oil plume stretching 21 miles from BP spill site 2010