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Gulf oil spill 5x larger than expected

Green Earth Facts — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:06:25 +0000

Gulf oil spill. Source: BBC

US coastguard says 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spewing from a well beneath site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.

Five times more oil a day than previously believed is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the blown-out well of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, the US coastguard has said. Coastguard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) experts now estimate that 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spilling into the gulf – far more than the previous estimate of 1,000 barrels a day. Robot submarines have so far failed to shut off the flow, 1,500m (5,000ft) below the surface, but the coastguard said a test burn on an isolated area of the spill was successful.

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Green Earth Facts — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:50 +0000

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UN warns of the economic impact of nature loss

Bottlenose dolphins mud-ring feeding

Green Earth Facts — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:00:36 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ50PYMXDCQ

A pod of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Florida have developed a remarkable hunting strategy in order to catch fish. Another awesome thing about this technique is that only one female in the pod can create this ring.

From the first episode (Challenges of Life) of the new BBC series Life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lbpcy

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Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot

Green Earth Facts — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:53:39 +0000

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Animals that are better than you

Green Earth Facts — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:39 +0000

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NASA – Sentinels of the Heliosphere

Green Earth Facts — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:57:29 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRQ_93kFKs

What NASA calls its ‘Heliophysics Observatory’ is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories and orbits, many of these satellites do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ to give mankind a better understanding of space weather and space environments.

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First animals evolved in lakes, not oceans, claims study

21 Amazing Fruit Facts

Green Earth Facts — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:44:24 +0000

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How small are we compared to the universe?

Green Earth Facts — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:37:06 +0000

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