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The Week in Pictures: Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? Balloon Blamed for Rio de Janeiro Fire, National Design Award Winners, and More (Slideshow)

Kemp’s Ridley is a critically endangered species of sea turtle that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. This week a source revealed that BP has been keeping rescue teams from getting to the turtles and has even been burning them alive, along with other animals. In other green news, the Dalai Lama urged the Sea Shepherd to use non-niolent methods to stop whaling; Chevron, who’s drilling a well in 8,530 feet of water off the coast of Newfoundland, said that a relief well isn’t necessary (even though a relief well could probably have avoided the Deepwater Horizon disaster); and it’s National Design Awards time, when the Cooper… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? Balloon Blamed for Rio de Janeiro Fire, National Design Award Winners, and More (Slideshow)

Just What We Needed Dept.: A Drive-Thru Car Museum

Sigh. While we write about a world after cars, where people live in walkable cities, Francesco Gatti is building a drive-thru museum in Nanjing, China. The whole thing is a cross between some complicated origami and a parking garage; one drives through exibits to the parking on the roof, then gets out of the car and looks at exhibits in the cube in the middle that takes up a small proportion of the building area. Of course it ramps down, so effort expended is minimal…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Just What We Needed Dept.: A Drive-Thru Car Museum