Keep Drilling, Baby, Drilling

A recent study of seven basic ecosystem types, and their most typical perturbations, found that of ecosystems that make a recovery from various catastrophic events (and, it must be noted, not all do), ocean ecosystems disrupted by oil spills were the fastest to recover, often within a span of one to four years. ...By contrast, forest lands disrupted by fire or deforestation can take more than 40 years to recover.