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Top 10 Dumbest Ways Exxon Mobil Is Cleaning Up The Yellowstone Oil Spill
Culture Buzz Fact: Oil spill cleanup techniques have been the same for the past 25 years despite the billions of dollars oil companies have made.
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Top 12 Cutest Animals Threatened By The Yellowstone River Oil Spill
Culture Buzz If you didn't already know, a pipe burst in Montana sending oil 15 miles down the Yellowstone River. The damage to wildlife is unknown as of right now, but here's a list of animals that will probably be affected by the spill. Just think about all of the baby otters. Such a horrible shame.
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Video: 205 Million Gallons
A year ago a massive oil spill began in the Gulf of Mexico. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped and then we forgot about it. Chris Harmon took a month to research and design this two-minute video that shows what would have happened if the oil hadn't spilled.
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15 Things That Happened On 420 Having Nothing To Do With Weed
Culture Buzz A lot of important historical stuff happened on April 20th besides Columbus discovering Boulder, Colorado or the invention of Dave Chappelle or whatever reason everyone gets baked today. It's an awful day for Colorado. And let's not forget all the wonderful birthdays.
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20 Pictures Of The March 2011 Gulf Oil Spill
Culture Buzz Here are some pictures of this week's mostly unreported oil spill off the coast of Lousiana. Several accounts have come in of a sheen nearly 100 miles long and 12 miles wide. Make it stop, already!!
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Video: Former BP Cleanup Worker Documents The Effects Of The Oil Spill On Her Body
Jennifer Rexford has taken to YouTube to raise awareness about the health effects thousands of people are feeling from the oil spill. Until now, this has been a very unreported issue. I've also attached a local news report about other people in the area feeling similar effects. Real scary stuff.
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Link: Gulf Oil Spill Clean-up Crews Are Ill
http://current.com/news/93090046_thousands-of-gulf-oil-sp...
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The article is a bit hyperbolic, but it's still a concern.
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Video: MIT Unveils Uncontrolled Oil Cleaning Robot
MIT has unveiled the Seaswarm, an autonomous, oil-cleaning robot. The robots group together (hence the “swarm”) using WiFi and GPS to clean an affected area. Had the technology been available, 5000-10,000 of these robots could have presumably cleaned up the Gulf spill in a month. Below is a video detailing how the robots work. More here.
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Image: A Million Gallons Of Oil May Leak Into Lake Michigan
As if the Motor City wasn't beleaguered enough, a regional oil company sprang a leak and is set to inadvertently feed upwards of one million gallons of oil into Lake Michigan. Err, are oil tycoons asleep at the wheel these days?
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Link: Want the Good News First?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/opinion/28friedman.html...
The Gulf Coast doesn't look so bad on the surface. But it's the unknowns that nobody is talking about.
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Link: Gulf Surface Oil Vanishing Quickly
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/us/28spill.html?partner...
The oil is clearing much faster than expected, but concern remains over the unseen effects.
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Link: Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Safety Concerns
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/us/22transocean.html?pa...
A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon before the oil rig exploded showed that many of them feared reprisals if they reported mistakes or other problems.
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Link: After Oil Spills, Hidden Damage Can Last for Years
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/science/earth/18enviro....
Every oil spill is different, but the thread that unites some major ones is a growing scientific awareness of the persistent damage that spills can do.
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Link: Sifting a Range of Suspects as Gulf Wildlife Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/science/earth/15necrops...
The vast majority of the dead animals that have been found along the Gulf Coast show no visible signs of oil contamination.
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Link: At BP, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/business/energy-environ...
In pursuit of growth and profits, BP has taken monumental risks and suffered the consequences. But its record shows that it has been unable or unwilling to learn from its expensive mistakes.
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Video: You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen
The government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife. While most of these pictures have previously been published by the mainstream media - and presumably will remain publicly available - that assumption is not 100% certain. By way of analogy, the government sometimes reclassifies as top secret information which was previously declassified.
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Image: Thanks To BP, This Is A Whale
A sperm whale found 70 miles from the Gulf Coast oil spill. Beware, the truth is graphic.
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Image: That’s A Wonderful Cover, New Yorker
The cover of the July edition of The New Yorker features an illustration from Bob Staake depicting the gulf oil spill in the style of M.C. Escher.
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Video: Underwater Cartoons Get Hit by the Oil Spill
BP has not only destroyed our oceans and shores, but it’s going after our childhoods now! Imitation Spongebob's voice is creepier than Spongebob's real voice.
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Image: The July New Yorker Cover
The cover of the July edition of The New Yorker features an illustration from Bob Staake depicting the gulf oil spill in the style of M.C. Escher.
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Link: Latest blunder feeds frustration in the Gulf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_o...
AP - Earlier this month, BP boldly predicted the oil gushing from the bottom of the sea would be reduced to a “relative trickle” within days, and President Barack Obama told the nation last week that as much as 90 percent would soon be captured. But those goals seemed wildly optimistic Thursday afte
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Link: BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling Some Call Risky
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/24rig.html?partner=r...
BP is moving ahead with an Alaska project considered “onshore” because it sits on an artificial island built by the company.
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Link: Cap back after robot nudge stalls oil collection
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://...
AP - A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive Gulf of Mexico spill.
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Link: Robot nudge foils Gulf oil collection for a day
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://...
AP - One nudge by a deep-sea robot, and BP had to back off its most effective method so far for containing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.
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Link: Cap Collecting Oil From Gulf of Mexico Leak
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_o...
Oil had spewed uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico for much of the day Wednesday before engineers reattached a cap being used to contain the gusher and direct some of the crude to a surface ship.
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Link: Engineers Uncap Broken Oil Well in Gulf of Mexico
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100623/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_o...
Engineers had to completely uncap the broken oil well spewing into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped into machinery being used to collect the spilled fuel. Hundreds of thousands of gallons more poured into the water as crews scrambled to replace a critical component.
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Image: Check Out The Oil On Our Beach
A wonderfully tone-deaf ad from Spirit Airlines reminding viewers that beaches in San Juan have oiled-up babes on them rather than the oil-ridden pelicans in the Gulf. These are the same guys who brought you the Muff-Diving ad campaign a little while back, so they know what they're up to.
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