Oil-Eating Microbes are Challenged in the Arctic
![Past oil disasters have shown that only 15 to 25 percent of the oil can be effectively removed from the marine environments. Credit: Janne Fritt-Rasmussen Oil-Eating Microbes are Challenged in the Arctic](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/oil.jpg)
New economic developments in the Arctic, such as trans-Arctic shipping and oil exploitation, will bring along unprecedented risks of marine oil spills. The world is therefore calling for a thorough understanding of the resilience and “self-cleaning” capacity of Arctic ecosystems to recover from oil spills. Although numerous efforts are put into cleaning up large oil […]