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Halliburton admits destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 26th, 2013
Reuters: Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the US department of justice said on Thursday.
The government said Halliburton's guilty plea was the third by a company over the spill and would require the world's second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum US$200,000 statutory fine.
Halliburton also agreed to three years' probation and to continue co-operating with the criminal probe into the 20 April 2010 explosion of...
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Hopes for a Fish Revival as a Dam Is Demolished
Posted by New York Times: Jess Bidgood on July 26th, 2013
New York Times: There is a bend in the Penobscot River here, embanked by an Indian burial ground, through which millions of fish used to make a strenuous journey upstream to spawn before returning to the sea. There were elegant Atlantic salmon, prehistoric-looking sturgeon and, most numerous of all, lowly river herring, a nutrient-rich forage fish prized by ground fish, bears and birds. But over the centuries, dams on the river and pollution from paper mills have helped wither the sea runs. Atlantic salmon here...
North Pole melts, forms lake at top of the world
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Bryan Nelson on July 26th, 2013
Mother Nature Network: If this image (above) doesn't scare you about effects of global warming, you must have icewater in your veins. Yes, that's the North Pole. It's now a lake. The photo is part of a time lapse recently released by the North Pole Environmental Observatory, a research group funded by the National Science Foundation that has been monitoring the state of Arctic sea ice since 2000. The shallow lake began forming on July 13th after an especially warm month, which saw temperatures rise 1-3 degrees Celsius...