Tag: Oil Spill - Page 14
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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage
We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill, and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil
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Today on Planet 100: Microbes Come to BP's Rescue (Video)
Today, on Planet 100, microbes that were previously unknown to science may be devouring Gulf oil at an astonishing rate, the Prius gets sound effects, and the Emmy Awards go green.Microbes Save BP BP have been
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Stop Focusing on Oil Barons as 'Greedy Bastards' - Lisa Margonelli Talks About the Political Chemistry of Oil
Recorded back in June but now just posted on the TED site, this 17-minute talk by Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation Energy Policy Initiative. really does a great job at drilling down on what it's going to take to actually start moving away
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MIT's Fleet Of Solar-Powered Oil-Cleaning Robots a Solution for Gulf Spill (Video)
MIT's Sensable City Lab directo Carlo Ratti and associate director Assaf Biderman have come up with the SeaSwarm, a robot that uses nanofibers to absorb 20 times its weight in oil, and their hope is that it can be developed
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Gulf Oil Plume Gone, Eaten By Newly Discovered Microbes
In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps
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Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites and Balloons (Slideshow)
Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that
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Feelgoodz Flip-Flops An Unwitting Casualty of Gulf Oil Spill
While not exactly on the same scale as fishing and tourism taking a huge hit from the Gulf oil spill, Change.org highlights an unwitting and unexpected casualty of it all: Feelgoodz flip-flops. The ethically-sourced, all natural rubber, footwear
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Sylvia Earle on the Gulf Disaster and Saving the Seas (Podcast)
She's truly one of the ocean's best friends. Sylvia Earle's career--and it's an epic one-- has been all about protecting and exploring the sea she loves so deeply. Earle served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Gulf Oil Plumes More Toxic to Microorganisms Than Thought
Preliminary results from experiments done by University of South Florida scientists on the toxicity of microscopic drops of oil in the undersea plumes from the BP spill show that they may be more toxic than previously believed. The
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Oil Spill Clean-Up Concept Uses Recycled Plastic Bottles
We're not so sure this concept will make it to any final rounds for the X Prize Foundation's contest for best oil spill clean up ideas, but itisn't the worst idea. Designer Min A Namgung reasons that we should fight oil with oil
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Oil Change International: It's Time To "Clean Up The Senate"
As George Parker so thoughtfully detailed last week in is New Yorker story, the U.S. Senate has become a place that produces imperfect policy, when it does produce policy, and the
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Nearly 80% of Oil From Gulf Spill Remains in Water, Threatens Ecosystem: Independent Analysis
A new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant contends that the amount of oil remaining in the water in the wake of the Gulf oil spill is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not
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BP Fined a Record $50 Million for Texas Refinery Explosion
To all those who've voiced concern that the federal government is just being too hard on poor ol' BP (here's looking at you Rep. Barton), perhaps you should take note of the following: There's a reason that BP needs to
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BP Spill Oil Already Entering the Gulf Food Chain
The recent discovery of trace amounts of oil in blue crab larvae has left experts forecasting dire news for the Gulf ecosystem. It's evidence that the oil from the spill loosed from the Deepwater Horizon explosion has already
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Worst Damage From the BP Spill May be Done in the Deep Sea
The challenges presented by the BP spill that we occupy ourselves with are too often surface deep: the oiled birds, soiled coastline, out of work tour guides, and political wrangling make for
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$20 Billion BP Spill Fund Finalized, But 40,000 Claims Still Ignored
The $20 billion escrow fund that Obama negotiated with BP is now being finalized, and BP is preparing to deposit the first $3 billion into it. The fund will help pay for the many claims being filed
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Six-Month Deep Water Drilling Moratorium Having Little Adverse Impact On Jobs, Rig Siting
Remember all those dire predictions
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Steven Chu: Static Kill "Completed Successfully"
US Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has just made an announcement on the current state of the operations to permanently plug the blown-out well below the Deepwater Horizon site. Chu has been instrumental in the spill's response,
