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Could the Russian Mir Submersible Stop the Oil Leak?
Photo: Wikipedia, public domain. "The Mir-2 captain underlined that the subs were probably the only deep-sea vessels in the world capable of stopping the leak." What if the Russian Mir submarines could stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the
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BP Says it Could Cap Leak by July 20th
If all goes according to plan, the gusher behind the Gulf spill will be plugged a month earlier than planned, BP says. This, of course, is months and months after they originally said they'd have the thing
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The BP Spill and the State of Clean Energy Legislation (Video)
If at any point during your observation of this interminable oil crisis in the Gulf you've found yourself thinking, well, it looks like we should probably do something to start curbing our national dependence on this stuff, know that you're not alone.
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Scientists Discover New Fish, Unfortunately it's Covered By the Gulf Spill
Though the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most intensely studied marine environments on the planet, there is still room for discovery. Scientists have managed
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Today's Oil Spill Nonsense: Overt Media Censorship, Plus: BP Nixes Peat Moss to Protect Profits
As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, I've personally have moved to from anger to trying to think more constructively, but here are two pieces of news which drag me right back to frustration: 1) In
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Oil Hits New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain lies just north of New Orleans. The famous lake and Louisiana icon suffered from pollution until restoration efforts brought it back to health in the 1990s. It once again became an important fishery and popular
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Computer Simulation Shows BP Spill After 1 Year (Video)
Where will the BP spill be a year after the Deepwater Horizon first exploded on April 20th? It's hard to say, of course, and depends largely on whether the relief well BP says will be ready next month is successful in cutting of the deep sea gusher.
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27,000 Abandoned Oil, Gas Wells May Be Leaking in Gulf of Mexico
The BP Gulf spill has no doubt brought plenty of scrutiny and debate to the practice of offshore drilling. But it still manages to be shocking when a figure like this emerges: according to an AP report, there are a staggering 27,000
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Avoiding a BP-Style Disaster on the Bosphorus
The sight of dozens of mammoth tankers anchored off the coast of Istanbul, or of lone ones passing underneath the two high Bosphorus bridges as they steam their way to
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Journalists Covering BP Spill Now Face Felonies, $40K Fines
There's been much discussion over how BP has been obstructing media coverage of the Gulf spill, and rightly so. Thus far, impediments to coverage have
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BP Gulf Spill Predicted by a 1970s Board Game?
Truth is certainly sometimes stranger than fiction. For instance, does this seem real? In the 1970s, a board game was created for an oil company known at the time as British Petroleum. In that game, called "BP Offshore Oil Strike",
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BP Cleaning Up Less than 1% of the Oil it Promised the Feds
Photo: NASA, public domain. Doesn't Anyone Have a Working B.S. Detector in Washington? On March 24th, 2010, BP made some promises to federals regulators about its capacity to deal with an oil spill (and we all know what happened soon afterwards). One of
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BP Oil Spill Sparks a Crude Awakening (VIDEO)
Check out this powerful video—made as an unsolicited donation to the National Wildlife Federation—that drives home the impact that the BP oil spill is having on wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Granted, there's a glimmer of good news for the
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World's Largest Oil Skimmer Ready to Clean the Gulf (Video)
The world's biggest oil skimmer is now in the Gulf, and is preparing to take part in the cleanup operations. But it's kind of hard to conceptualize what the biggest oil skimmer in the world, which is 400 yards long (a quarter of a
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Activists 'Tar and Feather' BP-Sponsored Tate (Video)
Artists angry about BP's devastating spill in the Gulf of Mexico created an "oil slick" of their own Monday in front of the Tate Britain in London, protesting the museum's acceptance of sponsorship from the company.
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BP Spill Bill Advances in the Senate
This legislation seems like a no-brainer: A bill that takes steps to prevent another such disaster, in the wake of the worst oil spill in the history of both the Gulf and the United States. Thankfully, such a bill -- one that requires
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X-Prize Foundation Announces $10m Prize for Oil Spill Solution
Photo: Flickr, CC A Bigger Carrot for Innovation The X-Prize Foundation's mission is to "bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity", and right now, a breakthrough in oil spill cleanup certainly would make the world a better place, so
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Tomorrow, BP Spill Will be the Largest in Gulf History
Initially described as 'comparably tiny' by the man ultimately responsible for it, two months later the spill will become the largest in the history of the Gulf. It will pass up the Ixtoc-I spill of 1979, which was the previous
