New Reports Contradict Government's Claims About Vanished Gulf Oil

[polaris93]

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[brezhnev]

Here's some possible good news:
http://www.pollutiononline.com/article.mvc/Oil-Eating-Bacteria-May-Determine-Environment-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gulf-oil-eating-microbes-slide-show

I have a feeling that there will be substantial improvement after two or three years.

[polaris93]

There are bacteria which are really good at cleaning oil up in the water. Also, many fungi love long-chain hydrocarbons for dinner -- here are two out of about a zillion search-engine hits on "fungus hydrocarbon" about it: Hydrocarbon Utilization by Higher Marine Fungi and Mechanisms for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by ligninolytic fungi It's going to be a long, hard couple of winters for Gulf fishermen and others who depend on the Gulf for their livelihood, though.