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BREAKING: Oil Spill May Have Stopped in Gulf

This news still needs to be confirmed, but it is being reported that the new containment cap has worked and the flow of oil info the Gulf of Mexico has been successfully stopped. A message posted to the PBS News Hour Twitter feed read, “BREAKING: There does not appear to be oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. We are confirming w/@BP_America. http://bit.ly/cGStxN” The shortened link points to their UStream page for the live video feed that shows the oil flowing into the Gulf. That video is embedded after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transporting 900 Bananas and a Baby? Five Fab Kid and Cargo Bicycle Combinations

Photo courtesy Taga . Portland, Oregon is becoming a premier location for cargo bike innovation – Clever Cycles blazed this trail in 2007 by starting to import Dutch Bakfiets cargo boxes and other specialty cargo solutions, and Joe-Bike and Metrofiets are taking a lead in handmade custom-built cargo bikes. There’s so much happening that it can be a little daunting for the uninitiated. If you already know that you’ll want to haul kids and cargo on a utility bike but have a low threshold for tech talk, how do you figure out what works? Mostly by test driving – it turns out that choosing a cargo bike and kid hauler is a personal affair. Click forward to read about five fabulous kid and cargo utility bikes at a variety of price points, to get your wheels turning…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transporting 900 Bananas and a Baby? Five Fab Kid and Cargo Bicycle Combinations

Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife

On the night of Tuesday, April 20, an explosion rocked an offshore drilling platform, launching an intense effort to fight the ensuing fires and find the 11 people that went missing after the accident. This photo shows the oil slick as it stretches out from the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of the tip of Louisiana. Do you have comments on this slideshow? Leave them here . Image credit: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife