A study by one team of researchers found that two and a half months after that, some of the pollutants had disappeared ​ — devoured, they concluded, by bacteria with a taste for methane.
Penelitian oleh sebuah tim periset mendapati bahwa dua setengah bulan kemudian, sebagian polutan sudah menghilang karena, menurut kesimpulan mereka, dilahap oleh bakteri yang doyan metana.