Bacteria seem to be doing a good cleanup job in gulf

Data collected months ago show populations of carbon-eating bacteria rising in parts of a plume of oil. Now, in the area where the bugs were collected, scientists 'do not see detectable oil.'As efforts continue to clean the oil that gushed from the blown-out Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists has found that nature's microbial helpers are hard at work too — and doing a better job than researchers had expected.

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