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Nature 451, ix (10 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/7175ixa; Published online 9 January 2008

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Making the paper: Steve Larter

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Microbes could provide cleaner energy from Earth's oil reserves.

Geochemist Steve Larter and his colleagues may have found a way to drive energy production from the world's diminishing oil supplies that minimizes damage to the environment. And the process might even be agreeable to the oil industry.