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Study finds use of dispersants can increase oil penetration into sandy marine sediments

 phys.org » 19 hrs ago  » Shared 2 times

A Florida State University researcher working as part of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) investigated the effects of dispersants on the movement of crude oil through water-saturated marine sand and found that dispersants potentially facilitate penetration of oil components into the se...

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BBC News - EU to ban refillable olive oil jugs and dipping bowls

 www.bbc.co.uk » 22 hrs ago  » Shared Once

The EU is to ban restaurants from using refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil, citing hygiene and consumer protection.

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OH CANADA: Protect the Arctic from Oil Spills!

 www.greenpeace.org » 22 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Tell Stephen Harper: No To Arctic Drilling

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Gates Foundation Fully Automated Public Toilets Reduce Waste [Video] - PSFK

 www.psfk.com » 21 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Delight units are being installed all throughout India.

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Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands | The Price of Oil

 priceofoil.org » 20 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Existing analyses of the impacts of tar sands fail to account for a byproduct of the process that is a major source of climate change causing carbon emissions: petroleum coke - known as petcoke. Petcoke is the coal hiding in North America's tar sands oil boom.

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Arctic oil boom sparks the next great political and environmental battle

 www.theverge.com » 19 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Things are heating up fast in the far north. The lands and sea of the Arctic — which have been ice-filled, inhospitable and treacherous for most of human history — are experiencing the effects...

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Plant Biotechnology and Transgenic Plants (Books in Soils, Plants & the Environment)

 www.memeread.com » 18 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Plant Biotechnology and Transgenic Plants (Books in Soils, Plants & the Environment).

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Palm fruit oil vs palm oil? - Yahoo! Answers

 answers.yahoo.com » 17 hrs ago  » Shared Once

What's the difference between palm oil and palm FR…

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Big Oil pays big bucks for bird kills, while wind farms breathe easy

 www.alaskadispatch.com » 16 hrs ago  » Shared Once

BP and Exxon each paid $100 million for damage to migratory bird populations resulting from famous oil-spill disasters. But for the hundreds of thousands of birds killed every year on the nation's wind farms, no such restitution is required.

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Swedish foreign minister defends Arctic oil stance | Alaska Dispatch

 www.alaskadispatch.com » 16 hrs ago  » Shared Once

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has rejected criticism from environmentalists and indigenous groups over Sweden’s failure to push for an oil exploration ban in the Arctic.

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Peak Oil No Longer Seems Likely, But That Causes Problems for Climate Policy

 science.time.com » 14 hrs ago  » Shared Once

No one—aside maybe from survivalists who'd stocked up on MREs and assault rifles—was really looking forward to a peak-oil world. Read this 2007 GQ piece by Benjamin Kunkel—while we're discussing topics from the mid-2000s—that imagines what a world without oil would really be like.

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 www.eoearth.org » 04 hrs ago  » Shared Once

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Would it be okay if I used mixing oil in my seperate tank to my petrol on my 2 stroke moped? - Yahoo! Answers

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Would it be okay if I used mixing oil in my seperate tank to my petrol on my 2 stroke moped?

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