Pacific Garbage Patch
• arcleinSimply put, it's a swirling mass of plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean that is big enough to qualify as the planet's largest landfill. Roughly located in an area between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N,
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U.S. Officials Saw Drilling Ban Costing Jobs: Report
• ReutersSenior U.S. officials expected the deepwater drilling ban to cost about 23,000 jobs and hold up $10.2 billion in investments. The ban spurred opposition from oil companies and local lawmakers who said it would exact a heavy toll in jobs and hurt crud
BP Settlements Likely to Shield Top Defendants
• NY TimesPeople and businesses seeking a lump-sum settlement from BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund will have to waive their right to sue not only BP, but also all the other major defendants involved with the spill, according to lawyers handling th
Gulf surface cleaner, but questions lurk far below
• APResearchers are warning that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida Panhandle.
Obama Would Dive For A Swim In Dirty Waters For Political Expediency
Written By: • LetterI discovered it on August 15, 2010 the day the news broke out. I sent it to the Editor, but the submission format was not working right. I am sending it today hoping it would work. Stephen Lendman discovered it too, and his submission successfully we
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US Senate Hearing on Autism: It's The Environment Not The Gene Pool
• Anne Dachel via Daily PaulWith barely any notice, the autism community heard that the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children's Health would be holding a hearing entitled, "State of Research on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related Neurodevelopment Disor
Obama's Gulf Swim Was Fake
Stephen LendmanThe swim was staged
Russian Wildfires Reach Chernobyl Site, Recontamination Likely (Video)
• cares2Over 500 wildfires have been raging across Russia for the past week, and now forest service officials are reporting that blazes have reached lands already contaminated by radioactive waste from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
BP plugs well with mud; feds say much of oil gone
• APBP claimed a key victory in the effort to plug its blown-out well and the government said much of the spilled oil is gone—though what's left is still at least quadruple the amount that poured from the Exxon Valdez.
'Static kill' mud starts flowing into BP well
• Washington PostThe static kill is underway. Whether it will kill, slightly impede, or merely pester BP's Macondo well remained unknown late Tuesday, as engineers and scientists at BP's headquarters in suburban Houston scrutinized pressure readings from the hole in
Reducing Soot Might Be Shortcut to Reverse Climate Change, New Study Says
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSciThe quickest way to slow the melting of Arctic sea ice is through reducing soot emissions, according to a new study of soot's climate effects. Eliminating soot entirely could undo nearly a century of global warming, the study says.
Should we Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes into the Environment?
• The Real NewsScientists in the US have managed to genetically engineer a malaria-resistant mosquito. The tremendous event has been hailed as the first of its kind and a breakthrough in the scientific community, but is all the speculation true? Is it a good idea t
Battle Creek oil spill among largest in Midwest history
• Detroit News"The EPA is estimating 1 million gallons (spilled). ... This feels like déja vu all over again with regard to what happened in the Gulf." The oil spilled into Talmadge Creek, which flows northwest into the Kalamazoo River. May have been leaking for m
Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh
• NBC NewsAdding insult to the Gulf's injury, an oil platform hit by a tugboat early Tuesday is now spewing oil and natural gas near a Louisiana marsh area. While there was no estimate of how much oil was gushing, officials said the mile-long slick it crea
Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil?
• AFPWith BP's leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone's lips is: where is all the oil? For three long months a massive slick threatened the shorelines of Louisiana and ot
Catherine Mohr builds green
• Catherine Mohr via TEDIn a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house -- looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think.
BP accused of 'buying academic silence'
• BBC NewsThe head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "This is really one huge corporation trying to buy fa
"Cap and Trade" is Dead
• The Washington PostConceding that they can't find enough votes for the legislation, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Ships leave leaky oil well as storm brews
• APCrew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug BP's ruptured oil well to a near standstill. Though the rough weather was
Oil cleanup workers protest ‘flotel’ housing
• AP[oh, it gets worse] BP told a New Orleans Fox affiliate that the flotels were useful for keeping workers close to cleanup sites, thereby eliminating travel time. But some aren't happy about it. In fact, a group of fishermen decided to go on strike
Almost invisible mirrored tree house built in Sweden
• Yahoo! GreenThey said it couldn't be done. When we first wrote about the almost invisible tree house to be built in Sweden by Tham & Videgard, 899 commenters thought it was computer-generated eye candy, impossible to build, and death for birds. But the archit
Gulf oil spill: Hearings on BP disaster canceled as witnesses say they won't show
• godlikeproductions.comNone of the five witnesses called to testify will appear at Wednesday’s hearing of the U.S. Coast Guard-Interior Department probe into what caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to explode. U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Hung Nguyen said the panel was noti
California bud growers worry about ‘Wal-Marting’ of weed
• The Associated PressAfter weathering the fear of federal prosecution and competition from drug cartels, California's medical marijuana growers see a new threat to their tenuous existence: the "Wal-Marting" of weed.
27,000 Potential Leaks
• Al Gore via The Huffingtion Post"More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one -- not industry, not government -- is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associa
The Climategate Whitewash Continues
• Patrick J. Michaels via Wall St. JournalLast November there was a world-wide outcry when a trove of emails were released suggesting some of the world’s leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and clima
This is Terrence Aym, author of one of the articles you posted.
Written By: • LetterHere's my updated article: DOOMSDAY: BP may have triggered a mass extinction event http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event BP has really got its 'hands' full. Yet the news blac
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NASA Will Rescue Thousands of Sea Turtle Eggs from Oil Leak Areas
• Laurie J. Schmidt via PopSciNASA's latest mission doesn't have anything to do with spacecraft or satellites. The space agency is helping thousands of baby sea turtles make their successful pilgrimage to the ocean. Biologists are digging up some 700 turtle nests on northern Gulf
National Academy of Sciences blacklists "Climate Deniers"
• Pajamas MediaThe National Academy of Sciences has published a blacklist of nearly 500 eminent scientists who the N.A.S. says shouldn't be believed on global warming, calling them "climate deniers".
Obama Science Czar Called For Global Carbon Tax
• Steve Watxon via Prison Planet.comImmediately prior to his nomination as White House Science Czar, John P. Holdren called for a global carbon tax in order to “redistribute” wealth to the Southern Hemisphere.
Infographic: Earth's Atmosphere Top to Bottom
• Our Amazing PlanetThe air you breathe is precious, and the farther from Earth's surface you go, the less there is. But Earth's atmosphere extends farther into space than you might realize, affecting the orbits of spacecraft more than 200 miles high.
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