Environmental pollution with petroleum toxic products has afflicted various ecosystems,
causing devastating damage to natural habitats with serious economic implications. Some …

Coastal environments harbor diverse microbial communities, which can contain genera with
potential bioremediation activity. Next-generation DNA sequencing was used to identify …

Sedimentary marine habitats are the largest ecosystem on our planet in terms of area.
Marine sediment microbiota govern most of the benthic biological processes and therefore …

Anthropogenically-induced oil spills release large amounts of organic pollutants into the
marine environment. To date, little is known about the response of microbial populations …

Drill cuttings (DC) are produced during hydrocarbon drilling operations and are composed
of subsurface rock coated with hydrocarbons and drilling fluids. Historic disposal of DC at …

The oil drilling process generates large volumes of waste with inadequate treatments. Here,
oil drilling waste (ODW) microbial communities demonstrate different hydrocarbon …

Diesel is frequently encountered in coastal ecosystems due to land run-off from road
surfaces. The current study investigates how partially weathered diesel at environmentally …

The organization of microbial communities in marine sediment relies on complex biotic and
abiotic interactions. Among them, the interaction between fungi and bacteria plays a crucial …

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria naturally degrade and remove petroleum pollutants, yet
baselines do not currently exist for these critical microorganisms in many regions where the …

Petroleum hydrocarbon (PH) pollution has mostly been caused by oil exploration, extraction,
and transportation activities in colder regions, particularly in the Arctic and Antarctic regions …