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What If Apple Managed BP's Claim Center?

One positive solution to our environmental challenges is simply applying know-how we already have to our problems. We just have to ask the right people for solutions.READ MORE›

Clams Could Become The Newest Tool In Oil Spill Cleanup

Natural solutions for oil spills are at the top of every environmentalist's list. And while everything from mushrooms to bacteria are being explored, there is one underestimated animal that might prove to be helpful: the clam.READ MORE›

Can Cornstarch Contain Future Oil Disasters?

Next time around, BP might want to try it. Researchers explain their recent breakthrough.READ MORE›

Oil Spill? What Oil Spill? BP Posts Profitable Fourth Quarter

Despite reporting an annual loss for 2010, BP's fourth quarter actually returned the energy giant to profitability. So much so that it's paying a dividend to its shareholders. How did this happen?READ MORE›

Official Spill Investigation: Halliburton Ignored Well Flaws Too

The presidential commission probing the oil spill said Thursday that both BP and Halliburton knew the cement mixture sealing at the Deepwater Horizon well might not hold, but disregarded its flaws.READ MORE›

What Spill? Chevron Starts Deepwater Gulf Drilling

Chevron has announced that it plans to file an application for deepwater drilling permits in the Gulf. But while the oil giant doesn't have the abysmal safety record of BP, we should still be wary.READ MORE›

Can an Oil Spill Really Be Cleaned Up?

Since the Gulf oil spill of April 2010, people have been asking us, 'Can you really clean up an oil spill?' "Well, not entirely." That answer comes from biological oceanographer Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.READ MORE›

Gulf Coast Oil's Disappearing Act Comes to an End

Giving the lie to claims that the oil had "disappeared," Greenpeace scientists went out sampling and found oil as far away as 300 miles from the spill site.READ MORE›

First Peer-Reviewed Numbers on BP Oil Spill Disaster Released

The Earth Institute's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory reveals how many millions of barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.READ MORE›

BP Photoshops Crisis Center Photo With Stunning Ineptitude

BP used Photoshop to alter this "crisis center" photo, so it would seem busier. Already pretty egregious, right? Wait'll you see how badly the job was done.READ MORE›

iFive: Life as a Clean-up Worker, Murdoch's Paywall Goes Up, the Centenarian Gene, Lexus Recall, Cycling Tech in London

While you were sleeping, innovation was whisking its love away for a cruise on its private yacht, and then erecting a paywall around her so that no one could see her. Strange, that.1. The Los Angeles Times has documented what life is ...READ MORE›

Former BP Exec Cynthia Warner Left Big Oil for Big Algae - And She's Not Alone

How a high-ranking veteran of BP was won over by the potential of pond scum.READ MORE›

• Algae Fuel's Pioneers
• The Beyond Petroleum Generation

Oil Spill May Force an Innovative Social Construction

As oil continues to fill the waters off my wife’s home state, Louisiana, inventors around the world are surely scheming up new technologies to prevent such catastrophes from happening again. While I wish for their success and am ...READ MORE›

BP to InnoCentive: Sorry, We Don't Want Your 908 Ideas for Saving the Gulf

The crowdsourcing community launched a challenge soliciting hundreds of ideas for how to stop the leak and clean up the Gulf. But BP doesn't want them.READ MORE›

• Suddenly, Everyone's an Expert on Fixing Oil Spills

President as COO: In Your Face Execution

 “He’ll sit [in the Oval Office], and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen. Poor Ike—it won’t be a bit like the Army. He’ll find it very frustrating.” That sentiment expressed by Harry ...READ MORE›

Big Oil Shakes Down U.S. Taxpayers

Rep. Joe Barton had it wrong.READ MORE›