Microbes quickly consumed much of the methane released in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Time-series measurements now suggest that, after a steep rise, methane oxidation rates crashed while hydrocarbon discharge was still continuing at the wellhead.
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Solomon, E. Bacterial bloom and crash. Nature Geosci 7, 394–395 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2174
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