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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Gulf Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas!

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: NASA, public domain. Worst Case Scenario (But Not So Improbable) It goes from bad to worse to ARGH… All the attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have failed so far (even if the top kill seemed to be succeeding at first ), and even the latest attempt to cut-and-cap the well has hit a snag when a diamond-bladed saw operated by a remote-controlled underwater robot got stuck in the riser pipe. All of this is making experts … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Robot Fish Take Over Schools of Real Fish, Lead Them to Safety

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images credit: NYU-Poly Now this is the kind of robotic fish we’re really looking for. It doesn’t just content itself with scanning the ocean for information on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mozart Makes Microbes Eat Sewage Faster

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via hoasm It looks like Mozart has billions and billions more fans than we thought — and much smaller ones, too. Evidently, sewage-eating microbes are major appreciators of the Austrian composer. One pioneering waste treatment plant in Germany has taken to playing Mozart on an expensive stereo to the microorganisms that break down sewage — and it found that it greatly increased their speed and efficiency, and could save the plant thousands of dollars a year. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: InfoThought When I wrote a post last week asking why so many people hate environmentalists , RecycleNot brought up a climate skeptic/denialist talking point I hadn’t heard in a while—that science does not work by consensus, and that argument from authority is a logical fallacy. On the face of it, it’s an attractive argument for those who don’t believe in man-made climate change, and one we heard many times when TreeHugger was inundated with ‘skeptic’ commen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Seinfeld Rickshaws, Bike Taxis and Other People-Powered Transport

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Screen capture . An important anniversary recently passed with little or no fanfare. April marked 12 years since the airing of ” The Bookstore ,” the classic Seinfeld episode when Kramer and Newman try to start a rickshaw business in New York City. Their plans failed, hilariously, but the world knew overnight what a rickshaw was. What have rickshaws been up to since? Well, they were popular in Asia years before they became a Seinfeld plot … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What’s Really Wrong with Our Oceans? Money, Politics, Greed, Money…

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via jenny downing Written By Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) The epic voyage of Plastiki is bringing into sharp focus the inordinate environmental and economic impact humanity is having on the oceans and seas. While the focus is solid waste, and especially plastic marine litter, the expedition also underlines the myriad of other, sometimes invisible, factors that are accelerating the degradation and decline of fisheries to coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exploding Whale – A Metaphor For Top Kill, Junk Shot, And All The Rest

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Stinking whale on beach. Many cases of dynamite later…blubber rains on humans. This old exploding whale video seems like a good metaphor for the occasional failure of technology to solve to Big Problems like the BP leaker, I wanted first to use that scene in Raiders of the Lost Arc when the bad guys open up the box and all hell breaks loose. But, I can’t post… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Shark Egg "Window" Proves Even As Babies They’re Scary (Video)

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photos via Galileu In hopes of better understanding the stages of fetal development in sharks, researchers from Brazil’s Guaruja Aquarium have literally opened a window into the once elusive world of shark eggs . For researchers, this new, unobscured peek into the humble beginnings of sharks may offer insights into how best to preserve them, many … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Underwater Robot Scans for Submerged Oil in Gulf of Mexico (Video)

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit iRobot Scientists are already rushing to determine the environmental impact of the Gulf oil spill, and iRobot is helping with the Seaglider, an unmanned underwater vehicle that has been sent to the ocean floor to prowl for submerged oil. iRobot is known for the Roomba and consumer cleaning robots, but this UUV unfortunately won’t be doing any cleaning. Instead, researchers need to measure the presence of oil trapped underwater, so the Seaglider, which can operate for up to 10 months, was released to find oil and repo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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