In a little noticed story today, the AP reports about a study led by Terry Hazen at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The study found the presence of massive amounts of a newly-discovered oil eating microbe in the Gulf of Mexico. Further, the microbe eats the oil without reducing the oxygen content of the water, a side effect feared by many scientists.
So, After all the oil got spilled into the Gulf, nature is taking care of the cleanup by these microbes' eating it. This is big news and explains why no one can account for where most of the oil went -- it was dinner for the microbes.
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