A company called LS9 is creating nearly pump-ready oil using single-celled bacteria. They start with ... they produce a different kind of waste. Crude oil is not far removed, molecularly, from ...

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Bacteria are known for gobbling up everything from caffeine to crude oil. And now ... What other strange substances do they eat? Illustration: Heather Seidel for The Wall Street Journal ...

Engineering bacteria to replicate the same processes can be significantly more sustainable, reduce waste streams, limits the production of toxic byproducts, and is not dependent on non-sustainable ...