Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Using spill-treating agents to clean up oil spills does not significantly hinder naturally occurring oil biodegradation, ...

Once the micro-organisms are poured on the fuel, enzymes break down the fuel's harmful components while bacteria digest them.

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

There were numerous postulated explanations, but a study reported that the oil-eating bacteria, Oceanospirllales, was the leading reason for the disappearance of the large oil plumes. Reports on the ...