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Melting Arctic Sea Ice Won’t Expand Ocean’s Carbon Storage Potential

photo: US Geological Survey via flickr Knock off one natural counterbalance to global warming: A new study in the Science shows that any hope that as Arctic sea ice melts and opens up new areas of open water potentially increasing its ability to store carbon emissions is ill-founded. In fact any increase in carbon storage will be short-lived and … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Melting Arctic Sea Ice Won’t Expand Ocean’s Carbon Storage Potential

Artist Drenches Models in Fake Oil to Protest Gulf Oil Spill (Slideshow)

Image credit: Jane Fulton Alt When news broke on April 20, 2010 that an explosion had occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform , artist Jane Fulton Alt was in the hospital, meeting her new grandson for the first time. He had been born the previous day. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How to Turn a Toothbrush Into Gold

Image via Ellie Marie When I first started Terracycle, I spent a lot of my time explaining what upcycling was . It was this foreign concept whose name wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar. Now, a handful of years later, more than 10 million people are collecting the brand specific waste that we’ve used to make a range of products; it has become increasingly common and may some day be as conventional as recycling. Currently, several startups are building their busi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How to Turn a Toothbrush Into Gold