Oil Biodegradation and Bioremediation: A Tale of the Two Worst Spills in U.S. History

[Image: see text] The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even though the nature of the two spills and the environments impacted were vastly different...

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Autores principales: Atlas, Ronald M., Hazen, Terry C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3155281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21699212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2013227
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description [Image: see text] The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even though the nature of the two spills and the environments impacted were vastly different. Fortunately, unlike higher organisms that are adversely impacted by oil spills, microorganisms are able to consume petroleum hydrocarbons. These oil degrading indigenous microorganisms played a significant role in reducing the overall environmental impact of both the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon oil spills.
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spelling pubmed-31552812011-08-12 Oil Biodegradation and Bioremediation: A Tale of the Two Worst Spills in U.S. History Atlas, Ronald M. Hazen, Terry C. Environ Sci Technol [Image: see text] The devastating environmental impacts of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989 and its media notoriety made it a frequent comparison to the BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the popular press in 2010, even though the nature of the two spills and the environments impacted were vastly different. Fortunately, unlike higher organisms that are adversely impacted by oil spills, microorganisms are able to consume petroleum hydrocarbons. These oil degrading indigenous microorganisms played a significant role in reducing the overall environmental impact of both the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon oil spills. American Chemical Society 2011-06-23 2011-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3155281/ /pubmed/21699212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es2013227 Text en Copyright © 2011 American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org This is an open-access article distributed under the ACS AuthorChoice Terms & Conditions. Any use of this article, must conform to the terms of that license which are available at http://pubs.acs.org.
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