Photo via MoneyBlog Things keep getting worse and worse for the bird populations around the Gulf Coast. First, experts revealed that once a bird is coated in oil, it’s almost certain to die — citing that less than 1% survive, even if they’re thoroughly cleaned . Now, scientists are worried that oil-covered birds will literally be cooked alive by the heat-absorbing oil. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oil-Coated Birds Could Be Cooked Alive as Gulf Heats Up (Video)
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Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It’s hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredder
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Photo via Ma.Ka. What would the world be like without oceans? What does it feel like to be in the ocean? How does the ocean affect your life on a daily basis? These are some of the prompts given to participants in an extraordinary new sound project called Ocean Voices. Last week, the California Academy of Sciences hosted the premiere of Ocean Voices , a project that collects people’s thoughts, experiences, impressions and musings on our oceans. It’s a powerful listening experience, with layers of sound creating an i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Say Something! Ocean Voices Project Collects Your Experiences, Impressions Of Our Seas
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Photo via Code Pink blog . Diane Wilson, one of the founders of the Code Pink protest group , today anointed herself with a glass jar of toffee-colored oil at a Senate Energy Sumbcommittee meeting to protest, she says, Senator Lisa Murkowski’s blocking of a bill that would have lifted BP’s liability cap. President Obama had earlier in the week announced he was supporting lifting the $75 million cap, to raise it to $10 bil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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‘Unreasonal Woman’ Diane Wilson Doused in Oil to Protest BP’s Liability Cap
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Image: Suck UK Is it the militarization of gardening? Or the gardenization of weapons? Following in the tradition of putting flowers into gun barrels, Tony Minh Nguyen and SnowHome have taken inspiration from the concept of “guerilla gardening” to design these clay hand grenades full of seeds. Rye grass seeds take root in the first week, then buttercups and poppies pop up a bit later. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Good OK, it’s a bit of a diversion—or as Good calls it , an “intermission”—but this great music video from Nick Bertke features sounds he recorded in his mother’s garden mashed into a song…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Listening to the Music of the Garden
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Photo via Reuters UK The ongoing crisis in the Gulf has only been made worse by the fact that BP’s CEO Tony Hayward has been spewing tone-deaf gaffes about as fast as the Deepwater Horizon site has spewed oil. His latest, declaring that he’d “like his life back” was evidently too much for his handlers, and he was subsequently reeled in from public view. Now, taking advantage of this momentary pause in Tony Hayword gaffe-dom, the
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Image courtesy of Philipe Cousteau The day started early as we left New Orleans in the hot muggy morning light. The drive to Grand Isle takes about two hours, plenty of time to contemplate what I was about to see. It had been a week since I was last in Grand Isle and I had heard things were getting worse, but nothing could prepare me for what I was about to see…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Dispatch from the Gulf Oil Spill: Damage Getting Worse Before It Gets Better
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Photo via Cleveland Back in 2002, an Ohio nuclear power plant developed a leak that allowed highly pressurized cooling water containing boric acid to seep out. That acid ate away a football-sized hole into the 6-inch steel lid to the nuclear reactor, leaving the reactor’s integrity at grave risk. The cause of the narrowly averted disaster was thought to have been fixed, but the New York Times reports that signs of even more leakage have been showing up again — again stoking fears of poor safety. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Nuclear Reactor Eaten by Leaky Acid, Again
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The dogwood tree is good for more than its beautiful blossoms: It serves as an essential source of nutrients in Eastern forest ecosystems. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Dogwood trees throughout Eastern forests act as calcium pumps, pulling nutrients from deep in the soil and depositing it on the forest floor when its leaves fall each year. This process provides an essential nutritional source for a variety of forest species. Meanwhile, birds and small mammals feed on the tree’s berries, which are rich in pro… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fire May Be Key to Saving the Important Dogwood Tree
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