ScientificAmerican.com: Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide Show]

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Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide Show]

A biological process that consumes oil from spills.

By David Biello
These microscopic life forms are blooming as a result of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Macondo 252 deep-sea well

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Massive coral mortality following bleaching in Indonesia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100816170839.htm

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Salps Catch the Ocean's Tiniest Organisms

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100806161859.htm

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