Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The last great extinction occurred sixty five million years ago. You can visit the exact point on earth where it started, on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Chicxulub crater , more than 110 miles in diameter, was formed by the enormous impact of a meteor the size of San Francisco hitting the earth. Life on earth changed radically from that moment of impact…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tracking the Extinctions and Adaptations Around Us
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Photo via NOLA Read the AP report on the final stages of the operation that should finally permanently seal the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico , and tell me it doesn’t sound like the plot from a Jules Verne novel: “One man guides a drill more than two miles beneath the sea floor and three miles from the surface, trying to hit a target less than half the siz… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP 100 Feet Away from Permanently Sealing Blown-Out Well
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Image via CNN The billionaire financier Carl Icahn snapped up $929 million worth of shares in oil-related energy companies in the months following the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon site , new reports are revealing. Icahn made the nearly $1 billion bet as shares in the industry were falling to all-time lows, and it’s thought that this investment helped the energy sector rebound in July. But what I want to focus on is the nature of Icahn’s bet: His $1 billion bet was based … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Umair Mohsin via flickr If Russia’s current heatwave being the worst in 1000 years and doubling the daily death rate in Moscow wasn’t enough, check out this sweaty stat: According to Wunder Blog (via Mongabay ), already this summer 17 nations have set or matched their all-time heat records. Not to mention an all-time hottest temperature for Pakistan, and possibly all of Asia…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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17 Nations Beat or Equal All-Time Heat Records This Summer
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Photo via MSNBC It irks me that I have to write a headline like that, but with so much of the media’s BP spill coverage painting pictures of a harmonious, oil-free Gulf, I can’t underscore enough the fact that this thing is far, far, far from over. Thankfully, CNN ran a report that got this 100% right , and spoke to scientists about the bevy of problems that still have them very concerned fo… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Spill Still a Really Big Problem
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Ocean Noise Pollution Leads Baby Fish Away From Good Habitat
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Photo via CSMonitor The AP is reporting that out of the roughly 200 million gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico throughout the course of the BP disaster , only 53.5 million gallons remain, according to federal scientists. The rest has either been collected, burned, dispersed by Corexit, or… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Says Only 1/4 of Spilled Oil Left in the Gulf
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With school supply lists hitting mailboxes all over the country over the next few weeks, it’s tempting to run out and stock up on pencils, notebooks, crayons, and other academic must-haves for elementary, junior high, and high school — but taking the time to research sustainable alternatives to classic supplies can earn you an A+ in environmentalism. Check out our list of go-to gear for kids — from recycled backpacks and pencils made of newspaper to banana-paper notebooks and bag-free lunches — to see which supplies make the grade. For more options, check out our
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Great, Green Back-to-School Gear for Tots and Teens (Slideshow)
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Image: Wikipedia , public domain. Important Milestone BP has started the ‘ static kill ‘ procedure on Macondo oil well on Tuesday afternoon, a day later than originally hoped because 2 minor leaks were found on valves on the new cap. After the valves were fixed, heavy drilling mud was pumped into the well for 8 hours until the pressure reached equilibrium. Since then, engineers… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The ‘Static Kill’ of BP’s Oil Well Appears to be Working (So Far)
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Oh man, this keeps getting better and better — can’t BP do something without lying or deceiving the public about it? How about something as simple as posting actual photos of its command center in Houston on the company website? Evidently not. No, a sharp-eyed blogger over at Americablog has uncovered that the company has photoshopped its command center . He quips, “I guess if you’re doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center.” Indeed. See the bizarre Photoshop job revealed below:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Photoshopped Fake Crisis Command Center for Website (Pics)
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