A new FAQ report from the American Academy of Microbiology (the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology) has just come out addressing questions regarding the role of microbes in helping to clean up oil spills.
A variety of questions are addressed, including:
What does it mean to say that microbes can ‘clean up’ an oil spill?
Where do the ‘oil-eating’ microbes come from? Are they everywhere? Does that mean we don’t need to worry about oil spills because microbes will always clean them up? What are they doing when there isn’t any oil?
What do the microbes need in order to biodegrade oil and how long does it take? What are the end-products of microbial degradation? How is biodegradation measured in the environment?
and many more. Click here to download and read a pdf of the report.
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