Still, marine environments have a mechanism to break down the oil that ends up in the water—bacteria. New research recently published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, outlines that ...

Oil-eating bacteria like these are also found on the ocean's surface, and helped degrade much of the oily refuse that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Hyderabad: Researchers have isolated a potent strain of bacteria from a petroleum-contaminated site in Nacharam area, capable ...

The idea is to pump specially developed microbes into depleted oil wells, where they'll eat oil and excrete hydrogen. Humans have been harnessing tiny single-celled and multicellular organisms to ...

Believe it or not, naturally occurring bacteria that can degrade oil are already present in marine environments, so adding specially engineered oil-eating bacteria isn't even required. What is ...

Most common soils contain bacteria that can “eat” hydrocarbons; if oil is spilled on the soil, they multiply enthusiastically, and soon the oil disappears. Bacteria can even live on paraffin ...

The small motorboat anchors in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Shrieks of wintering birds assault the vessel’s five crew members, all clad in bright orange flotation suits. One of the crew ...

That'd be one fast petri dish, rife with fuel-eating bacteria that could one day be our allies during awful oil spills. So the next time you're angry at dirt and grime around your gas cap ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according to new research co-authored by Hénaff. Hundreds of hardy microbe species, ...

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

However, certain oil-degrading bacteria thrive in oil-spill conditions and contribute remarkably to the bioremediation of oil. Although biofilms, which are communities formed by bacteria, play a ...

But unlike oil and gas deposits ... odorless gas and these microbes eat it really efficiently in the subsurface as it’s leaking out of the ground,” Ellis told Forbes.