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Exclusive: Ocean Activist Roz Savage to Row Across Indian Ocean

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Exclusive: Ocean Activist Roz Savage to Row Across Indian Ocean

Photo via Roz Savage, Credit Phil Uhl “It really does come down to one stroke at a time:” This is what ocean activist Roz Savage told the 100 riders gathered to listen to her speak on day two of Brita Climate Ride — the 320-mile climate awareness bike trip that started in Eureka, California on Tuesday. Savage, living up to her last name, intends to keep on stroking. In 2011, she will set off once again in he… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New BP Spill Analysis Reveals that 185 Million Gallons of Oil have Leaked

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New BP Spill Analysis Reveals that 185 Million Gallons of Oil have Leaked

Photo: BP BP Oil Spill Post-Mortem A team of U.S. scientists from Columbia University has just published a paper about a review of video footage from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico last Spring and Summer. Using a technique called “optical plume velocimetry” and other analysis techniques, they were able to estimate how much oil escaped the Macondo well between April 20th and the moment the leak was plugged on July 15th (with final confirmation that the well was stable only on Sept… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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