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50 Years Ago: Trieste Goes To The Bottom of the Ocean
On January 23, 1960, the Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard, son of the bathyscaphe’s inventor Auguste Piccard, and US Navy lieutenant Don Walsh, took the bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of the...
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The Week in Pictures: Exxon Valdez Oil Still Trapped in Alaskan Beaches,...
From the news that a new ‘super snake’ python hybrid may be on the rise in Florida to new research revealing that about 20,000 gallons of Exxon Valdez oil still remains trapped in the gravel beaches...
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Isabella Rossellini, The Green Porn Star
Ever since she was a child, legendary model and actress Isabella Rossellini has been fascinated and amused by animals and their intricate rituals. Wanting to share her passion with the world through...
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Stop West Virginia’s Spruce Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
Photo courtesy of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and SouthWings. While we watch the continuing BP oil disaster in the Gulf, there is another form of dirty, destructive, energy we need to...
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BP Gulf Oil Spill Officially the Worst in US History
Photo via the LA Times By BP and the US Coast Guard’s own conservative estimates, the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now officially the worst in US history. Those estimates place the leak as having...
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BP’s Moment of Truth
The Gulf oil spill is now at least three times the amount of the 11-million-gallon Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. How BP handles the catastrophe will be the true measure of the company — and a sign of...
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Hair Raising Campaign to Clean Up Gulf Oil Gusher
Volunteers produced a lot of boom at Felix’ Fish Camp, Mobile Alabama, to absorb oil. Photos courtesy of Matters of Trust Since the Top Kill method has failed, cleaning up the continuously leaking oil...
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Exxon Valdez Tanker To Be Broken Up And Recycled As Scrap in India
Oil Tanker Photo from Shutterstock The Exxon Valdez , the tanker that was responsible for the world’s worst oil spill (until the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010), is...
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MIT Develops a Way to Magnetically Separate Oil From Water
In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill we explored several innovative methods to separate oil from water . Now a team from MIT has developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and...
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