Oil-munching microbes cleaning up Gulf marshes faster than expected
Five years after Deepwater Horizon spill, BP-funded study points to ecological recovery along the coast
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OIL SPOILS In cores of sediment like this one pulled from a Louisiana marsh, researchers found busy microbes gobbling up oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Courtesy Battelle