Can the natural ability of microorganisms to degrade oil be harnessed to clean up oil spills? In the open ocean, there is often ... that the US National Science Foundation has announced the ...

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.

You and colleagues believe that the answers to oil spill challenges could come from nature – arguably the world’s greatest scientist. They found that the deep-sea glass sponge E. aspergillum, which ...