Fuel eating microbes, chemicals and fire: the race to discover new ways to contain Arctic oil spills

L ast winter, inside the subarctic in Canada, scientists embarked on an experiment they hoped would result in a gamechanging remedy for polluted Arctic waters. They released 130 litres of diesel into an ice-covered pool filled with raw seawater pumped in from Hudson Bay and added oil-eating microbes...

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