[News] Oil spill is boon to bacteria

[Moontanman]

Oil spill is boon to bacteria

 

Last month's blowout of British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil well -- which caused the US Commerce Department to decree today (25th May) that fisheries in three states bordering the Gulf of Mexico are official disasters -- is likely already impacting the Gulf's microscopic denizens, which will, in turn, have long-term effects on commercially important species such as fish and shrimp, scientists say.

 

 

Oil spill is boon to bacteria - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences