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Guardian: The huge quantities of methane gas that bubbled out of BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico were eaten up almost entirely by undersea microbes by the end of August, a new study reports today.
Other scientists cautioned that much oil remained on the ocean floor, where it has penetrated deep into the sediment, as well as in fragile marshlands. Oil is still turning up in tar balls on beaches and in fishermen's nets.
But the latest study, published in Science, offers an important new piece of......
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Methane from BP oil spill eaten by microbes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 6th, 2011
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