Tinka Murk

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Oil-chewing bacteria may be the future for quickly cleaning toxic oil spills

Environment

Oil spills are ecological disasters. Whether it’s the oil itself or the dispersants used to break up the slick, spills wreak environmental havoc on marine life, shore life and human life. But hydrocarbon-chewing microbes could reduce the havoc and the danger.

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Oil-chewing bacteria may be the future for quickly cleaning toxic oil spills

Environment