{"id":335928,"date":"2017-06-26T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=35b7e1488278c3d2640d3832290501bf"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:00:02","slug":"microbe-mystery-solved-what-happened-to-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-plume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=335928","title":{"rendered":"Microbe mystery solved: What happened to the Deepwater Horizon oil plume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is one of the most studied spills in history, yet scientists haven&#8217;t agreed on the role of microbes in eating up the oil. Now a research team at the Department of Energy&#8217;s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified all of the principal oil-degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 is one of the most studied spills in history, yet scientists haven&#8217;t agreed on the role of microbes in eating up the oil. Now a research team at the Department of Energy&#8217;s Lawrence Berkeley &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335929,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335928\/revisions\/335929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}