Scientists Use Tiny Microbes to Help Solve Big Oil Problem
1,683 views · Published 9 July 2010 · 4:33 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2010 · News & Politics
As skimmers and tankers attempt to clean the spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have turned to tiny microbes to tackle oil contamination in affected marshlands. Tom Bearden reports from the Alabama coast.
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