Highway crews are using micro-organisms that can transform fuel spills into water within minutes ... enzymes break down the fuel's harmful components while bacteria digest them.

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.

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Last month's blowout of British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil well -- which caused the US Commerce Department to decree today (25th May) that fisheries in three states bordering the Gulf of Mexico ...

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster that will affect wildlife in the oceans and on the shores for a long time. But can microorganisms come to the rescue? bacteria constitute a ...

Over a decade on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, could we do a better job ... involved in oxidative stress in oil-degrading bacteria. "I have never seen so many proteins involving DNA ...

A growing oil spill in the Humber Estuary has sparked ... Smaller hydrocarbons are very attractive to bacteria who will degrade them more quickly than larger molecules - called "biodegradation".

Micro-organisms consume a fuel spillage and render it non-flammable Highway crews are using micro-organisms that can transform fuel spills into ... components while bacteria digest them.