Times Online - What will be left after the oil spill?
The Times Online reports: "A morbid open-water experiment has now effectively been unleashed in the Gulf, tracing the food web via the cocktail of chemicals in the oil and the dispersant. But while 90 per cent of energy is lost when one organism eats another, the toxin accumulates as the bigger fish eat the numerous small ones they need to survive [...] Once inside a living body, some toxins will start to poison while others are stored away in tissues as a toxic time bomb [...] At the end of the food chain, they end up in our own fatty tissues, waiting for the moment when those reserves are broken down before they are released into our systems."