Study in Gulf on Oil-Eating Bacteria

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 12:42 in Biology & Nature

Oil-eating bacteria exist in significant quantities even in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and may be breaking down submerged oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak faster than previously believed, scientists are reporting today.

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