Oil spills are serious environmental hazards that are extremely difficult to clean up. Thankfully, we may be getting closer to finding a way to effectively clean up oil spills after scientists discovered a little bacterium that chows down on the hydrocarbons that make up oil. Now the researchers are working on developing a way to put this bacterium to work cleaning up real-life oil spills.
Scientists have found a bacterium that might be able to clean up oil spills
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