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It’s Not Time to Scale Back the Gulf Coast Cleanup, Is It?

Image via Boston With the flow of oil from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico capped and most of the spilled oil skimmed from the water’s surface, incoming CEO Robert Dudley said last weekend that it was time for BP to “scaleback” its cleanup efforts, the AP reported . E… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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It’s Not Time to Scale Back the Gulf Coast Cleanup, Is It?

Turkey and Syria Bond Over Saving the Bald Ibis

A Northern bald ibis in the Vienna Zoo. Photo by Roberto Verzo via Flickr. It’s got an awfully ugly mug to have inspired any kind of romantic association, but our guide at the bird sanctuary in Birecik, on the Euphrates River in southeastern Turkey, waxed poetic about how the bald ibises resident there mate for life and return after their annual migration on

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Turkey and Syria Bond Over Saving the Bald Ibis