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Tsunami boat washes up in Canada
The NOAA expects that more debris will come ashore over several years, but that much of it will be indistinguishable from the usual flotsam and jetsam.
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Plastic is found in virtually everything these days. Your food and hygiene products are packaged in it. Your car, phone and computer are made from it. And you might even chew on it daily in the form of gum. While most plastics are touted as recyclable, the reality is that they’re “downcycled.” A plastic milk carton can never be recycled into another carton — it can be made into a lower-quality item like plastic lumber, which can’t be recycled.
16 simple ways to reduce plastic waste
Source: mothernaturenetwork
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Dear Octopus,
That is not your house. That is a trash.
I am sorry we made all the trash.
I hope you get a real house one day. One that’s clean.
-Joe
Source: ilovecephalopods
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Materials Use Light/Dark to Purify Air
Removing the smell of new carpet from a room may eventually be a matter of turning the lights on or off. Manindu Weerasinghe, a Kansas State Univ. doctoral candidate in chemistry, Sri Lanka, is studying materials that use light or darkness to purify air filled with toxins that are harmful to human health and the environment. Her research could one day lead to filters, humidifiers and other devices that can detoxify air in windowless rooms, manufacturing facilities and other indoor areas.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Materials-Use-Light-Dark-to-Purify-Air-012712.aspx
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Obama Rejects Controversial Keystone Oil Pipeline →
cwnl:
US president Barack Obama has rejected plans for a vast oil pipeline reaching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, The Washington Post is reporting.
The Keystone XL pipeline has been criticised by environmentalists, but promoted by Republicans because they argue it would create jobs.
Canadian energy infrastructure firm, TransCanada had applied for a permit to build the pipeline. It would ferry bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists cited the enormous greenhouse gas emissions from the fuel that would be produced, as well as the risk to the sensitive ecosystem of the Nebraska Sandhills, through which the pipeline was planned to pass.
Last November the government announced a new environmental review of the project, delaying the final decision until 2013 - after the upcoming presidential election. However, late last year Republicans forced the government to make a decision within 60 days.
The rejection is not final - TransCanada will have the opportunity to reapply for a permit to build the pipeline along a route that avoids the Sandhills region. Still, Republicans - including US presidential candidate Mitt Romney - have reacted by excoriating Obama for his decision. By turning down the permit, Romney said “the president demonstrates a lack of seriousness about bringing down unemployment, restoring economic growth and achieving energy independence”, according to the Post’s article.
And Agence France-Presse quotes John Boehner, speaker of the US House of Representatives and a Republican as saying:
If we don’t build this pipeline to bring that Canadian oil, and take out the North Dakota oil and deliver it to our refineries in the Gulf Coast, that oil is going to be shipped out to the Pacific Ocean and be sold to the Chinese… This is not good for our country.
Canada is also developing another pipeline to carry bitumen away from the Alberta tar sands. The proposed Northern Gateway would terminate on the West Coast, in British Columbia, where it could be shipped across the Pacific to China.
By contrast, many environmentalists regard Keystone as a key test of Obama’s green credentials, which have taken a battering since he came to office.
Source: ikenbot
