Twenty-one years after ZoBell's classic review, the supertanker Torrey Canyon sank in the
English Channel. With this incident, the attention of the scientific community was …

Large amounts of petroleum and petroleum products are produced, refined, and handled on
land every year, and, despite careful handling and containment, there is the possibility that …

Much of the early work on the microbial utilization of petroleum hydrocarbons, conducted in
the 1950s and 1960s, was done with the goal of using hydrocarbons as substrates for …

Une méthode basée sur le nombre le plus probable (MPN) a été mise au point pour
dénombrer séparément les bactéries capables de dégrader les hydrocarbures aliphatiques …

The ability of Bassia scoparia (L.) AJ Scott to remediate petroleum-contaminated arid land
sandy soil was studied with natural and sterilized soils, and with supplemental nutrients and …

Rhizosphere microbial populations may increase bioremediation of soil contaminated with
organic chemicals. A growth chamber study was conducted to evaluate rhizosphere …

The decontamination of oil‐polluted cold environments has been recognized as an area of
particular importance. The biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons at low temperatures …

The buried China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline (CRCOP) across the permafrost-associated
cold ecosystem in northeastern China carries a risk of contamination to the deep active …

The cold-adapted bacterial communities in petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated and non-
impacted soils from two northern Canadian environments, Kuujjuaq, Que., and Alert …

Abstract Aims: To identify native Antarctic bacteria capable of oil degradation at low
temperatures. Methods and Results: Oil contaminated and pristine soils from Signy Island …