Read this and laugh at the natural processes of our world and how they expose our petty concerns with the sunshine of the truth.
Scientists have discovered a hitherto-unknown oil-chomping microbes in the cold, briny depths of the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find free oil out in the Gulf, either on the surface or in a subsurface plume, a little more than a month after the flow from the Macondo well was controlled.
If you’re a bacteria, the BP spill was like Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner all in one. Nom-nom.
Which really shouldn’t come as a surprise to one who knows a thing or two about the natural environment of the Gulf. Given that a million or so barrels seep by natural processes every year into the Gulf, one would expect that specialized organisms would evolve to process it.
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