Image via The Sierra Club Throughout the Gulf oil spill , BP pulled out all the stops to try and save their image — with a slurry of off-the-mark television advertisements airing across the United States. Still, their pricey PR campaign couldn’t come close to the impact felt after seeing the
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This is what the tar sands did to Alberta’s boreal forests. Image via Boreal Song Bird Initiative You’ve likely heard about the infamous Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada. They’re a major source of controversy in the energy world and the environmental community (to put it lightly), and for good reason. Extracting oil from tar sands is far more degrading to the environment than typical oil extraction, as the process destroys forest, emits substantially more greenhouse gas, contaminates nearby habitat, and consumes mammoth amounts of water. And now, the United States cou… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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First US Tar Sands Project Approved in Utah
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Image via SkyTruth We know that bottom trawling — the practice of dragging a net across the sea floor to collect anything and everything in… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time
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Photo via NOLA At first glance, you might not even notice the dead fish in the picture above — there are too many of them. But no, that’s not a gravely parking lot. It’s a section of the Mississippi River that has literally been clogged with thousands of dead fish in the wake of the BP Gulf spill . And while investigation as to the cause of the mass fish kill is still underway, there are fears that new toxins in the water from spilled oil or chemical dispersants have played a role. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Huge River of Dead Fish Clogs Mississippi Near the Gulf
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Some of Libya’s most important coastal ruins could be irreparably harmed by an oil spill. Photo by moscayan via Flickr. With its rich ancient sites only recently opened up to visitors, Libya ‘s slowly developing tourism industry may be in trouble before it really even gets going. According to archaeologists, 7th-century-BC cities and historic shipwrecks — many o… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Archaeologists Sound Alarm about Risk BP Drilling in Libya Could Pose to Ancient Sites
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photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr While BP just concluded that a whole slew of missteps led to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent Gulf Gusher, so it seems a whole bunch of political squabbling seems to be holding up distribution of some $500 million in research money pledged to investigate the ecological effects of the spill. OnEarth goes into more detail, but this is the gist of it:… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Political Squabbling Holds $500 Million of BP’s Pledged Research Money in Limbo
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Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah’s Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Jonathan McIntosh via flickr With all the increased attention Canada’s tar sands projects have been getting–both in terms of environmental impact and distributing them through pipeline into the United States–it’s not surprising that many people are calling for a boycott on oil and fuel produced from tar sands. But is that really possible in a meaningful sense? … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can You Really Boycott Fuel Produced From Canadian Tar Sands?
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photo: sbamueller via flickr Contradicting previous industry- and government-backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that high levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and other pollutants are not naturally occurring. As Cree elders have said for some time,
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Photo via Telegraph , Credit: Anne Young/Solent News In the Ubud region of Bali, Indonesia comes a companionship straight out of children’s books. Photographer Anne Young was vacationing at the Monkey Forest Park when she spotted a young male long-tailed macaque monkey that had adopted a ginger kitten, protectively caring for and grooming it while keeping other monkeys away. The kitten couldn’t look happier, and neither could the monkey. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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