Finally, they can also be used to accelerate bioremediation, a technique that uses microorganisms to break down harmful pollutants like oil into less harmful or harmless substances. "While these ...

Banks and Schwab have used plants to help clean up a Texas oil pipeline spill, contamination at an Indiana ... They describe their work in "Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils," a book published last ...

But this requires that funding agencies become and remain committed to funding for research into bioremediation as well as oil breakdown and its applications. Head, I. M., Jones, D. M.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the ... indicating a great potential for intrinsic bioremediation or natural attenuation in the deep sea. Various other microbial ...