Topic: Deep-sea oil plume goes missing

[Clive]

In May, researchers began reporting that the massive jets of crude emanating from BP’s damaged Deepwater Horizon well were creating deep, diffuse plumes of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, chemical oceanographers have been probing the plumes for indirect clues about how quickly native bacteria might be gobbling up the oil.


Microbial ecologist Terry Hazen of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California now thinks he has a surprising answer: very quickly.

YUMMY....OIL

[Rik]

I like my food fried.

[sam]

better watch out before that bacteria puts pay to the british chip shop

[Simon]

[Clive]