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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Now, according to the University of Calgary, an international team of researchers has found a way for using microbes to extract methane from oil sands. With its enormous reserves, Canada could ...

It’s not a widely known fact that the 2010 oil spill caused by the explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform could have been even worse were it not for bacteria. Several species of marine ...

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, ...

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 ...