Oil-Eating Bacteria Could Be a Solution to Spill Cleanups | National Geographic
Five years after the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill, oil remains on some marshland and inside plant tissues. Scientists are hoping to combat past and future spills by using oil-eating bacteria that’s already naturally occurring in affected plants.
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