How Fast Can Microbes Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill?

These are boom times for oil-eating microbes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that has added some 600 million liters of hydrocarbons to those waters. And now research published online in Science on August 24 shows that an array of new and unclassified oil-eating bacteria are feasting on the newly rich resource of hydrocarbons. [More] Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico - deepwaterhorizon - BP - Environment

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