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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.

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Oil laps the coast near Athens as clean-up teams scramble to remove it Clean-up crews are scrambling to contain an oil spill from a Greek ... on mission to 'clean up oceans' Exposure to oil ...

The accident happened two days after major protests in Mauritius over the government's handling of the clean up. About 1,000 tonnes ... t do anything until the oil spill and now thousands of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to ...

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LIMA – Peru’s government on Dec 26 declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil firm ... had deployed clean-up brigades from the moment the spill occurred ...