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Microbes in Gulf Are Eating BP Oil Without Depleting Oxygen

Sep 7th 2010 – 6:19PM

WASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive. Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and...

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