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Obama’s New Space Policy Includes Cleaning Up Space Junk

Image credit NASA, via Popular Science Announced earlier this week, President Obama’s new National Space Policy is focusing on pollution both here on Earth and the space surrounding it. The new policy hopes to see an international collaboration to hone in on monitoring climate change with satellites and cleaning up space debris, which is viewed as a threat to space exploration (to which

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Activists ‘Tar and Feather’ BP-Sponsored Tate (Video)

A previous protest held April 1, 2009, at the Tate Britain. Photo via Indymedia London 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. Members of the group said they hoped oil-company funding of cultural events would soon become “socially unacceptable” — much in the way that tobacco-company money is shu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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