the oil and leave the water crystal clear and free from oil pollution in the laboratory of moscow state university biologists are working on creating a microbial agent to help degrade began small manmade or oil spills in the northern seas of the arctic the project was initiated by russia's oil giant ross net and the nongovernmental in a practical institute they prepared and send the biologists of m.s.c. to the arctic to take numerous samples of microbes in the ice cold waters to single out and then cultivate the oil eating because here again generally the use of oil pollution techniques using microorganisms have been around for a long time it's already possible to target oil pollution in moderate temperatures but at the moment there's no means to clean up oil spills at negative temperatures in icy conditions and that we found such a microbe that lives multiplies and eats hydrocarbons at minus 4 degrees celsius it can do all that in the ice this method is particularly relevant for the arctic it makes it possible to restore the properties of the ecosystem that existed before the impact introduced by