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Gulf of Mexico has greater-than-believed ability to self-cleanse oil spills

2013-04-08 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The Gulf of Mexico may have a much greater natural ability to self-clean oil spills than previously believed, an expert in bioremediation said on April 8 in New Orleans at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Terry C. Hazen, Ph.D., said that conclusion has emerged from research following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which by some estimates spilled 4.9 million barrels (210 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. His research team used...

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