Factoid/2009/01/02
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Lake Baikal Has Microbes That Can "Eat" Oil Spills
- Dr David Santillo, senior scientist with the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, said: "Further investigation of these unusual microbial communities in Lake Baikal will be valuable. However, while microbial action might help deal with some oil spills, we need to place far more emphasis on preventing such spills from happening in the first place." - excerpt appeared in this Telegraph.co.uk article.
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