Bacteria feasted on Macondo methane

Bacteria ate nearly all the potentially climate-warming methane that spewed from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists reported today.

Macondo: methane-eating bacteria were last to the hydrocarbon banquet
Macondo: methane-eating bacteria were last to the hydrocarbon banquet
Published 6 January 2011, 23:50Updated 11 October 2016, 09:30
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