Pollution

Oil-Munching Bacteria Made Fast Work Of BP Oil Spill, Scientist Says

"Much of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 disappeared within weeks of the capping of BP's Macondo well on July 15, digested by a massive explosion in oil-eating microorganisms, said Terry Hazen, a professor of environmental biology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, during a Monday panel at the national conference of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/09/2013

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