Marine Science article
Source/title:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130926102435.htmMarine Science article
Summary
1st Sep. 26, 2013 — Teams of international scientists have decrypted the effectiveness of two types of bacteria, which could be used in the future to help combat oil spill disasters. New insights on the bacteria Oleispira antarctica are important to understand their adaptation to low temperatures and could help in mitigation strategies for oil spills in polar seas or the deep sea, according to comments made by an international team in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. According to data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) around seven million litres of such chemicals were used to combat oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting from a spill of about 700,000 tons of crude oil into the sea from the offshore oil drilling platform "Deep water Horizon" in 2010. Some of the most well-known of these were with the brand name Corexit -- developed following the notorious tanker accident of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989. The significantly colder polar seas or the deep sea Oleispira would be the more suitable bacterium. It can survive at temperatures around 5 degrees Celsius that are typical for example on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. The persistence of these bacteria is proof of their ecological competitiveness in cold environments, therefore making them good candidates for the development of biotechnological solutions for oil pollution mitigation in polar regions. The new insights about the two bacteria are a small, but important step forward in the search for alternatives to the toxic dispersal that have been used so far.
2nd "The cell growth confirmed that this bacterium is not only able to take up the intermediates of fatty acids in its own body but also to convert them," explains Heipieper.
3rd I chose this article because it caught my eye when it talks about bacteria and oil. It is most interesting to me because the combat oil pollution in the gulf of mexico, resulting from a spill of about 700,000 tons of crude oil into the sea from the offshore oil drilling platform "Deep water Horizon" in 2010.
1st Sep. 26, 2013 — Teams of international scientists have decrypted the effectiveness of two types of bacteria, which could be used in the future to help combat oil spill disasters. New insights on the bacteria Oleispira antarctica are important to understand their adaptation to low temperatures and could help in mitigation strategies for oil spills in polar seas or the deep sea, according to comments made by an international team in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. According to data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) around seven million litres of such chemicals were used to combat oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting from a spill of about 700,000 tons of crude oil into the sea from the offshore oil drilling platform "Deep water Horizon" in 2010. Some of the most well-known of these were with the brand name Corexit -- developed following the notorious tanker accident of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989. The significantly colder polar seas or the deep sea Oleispira would be the more suitable bacterium. It can survive at temperatures around 5 degrees Celsius that are typical for example on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. The persistence of these bacteria is proof of their ecological competitiveness in cold environments, therefore making them good candidates for the development of biotechnological solutions for oil pollution mitigation in polar regions. The new insights about the two bacteria are a small, but important step forward in the search for alternatives to the toxic dispersal that have been used so far.
2nd "The cell growth confirmed that this bacterium is not only able to take up the intermediates of fatty acids in its own body but also to convert them," explains Heipieper.
3rd I chose this article because it caught my eye when it talks about bacteria and oil. It is most interesting to me because the combat oil pollution in the gulf of mexico, resulting from a spill of about 700,000 tons of crude oil into the sea from the offshore oil drilling platform "Deep water Horizon" in 2010.