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The Obama administration is considering using seismic air gun blasts to search for oil and gas under the ocean seabed.

The problem with this is that the blasts are 100,000 times louder than a jet engine and they'd occur every 10 seconds for months!!

There's a very good chance that 138,500 whales and dolphins will be injured and maybe even killed by these blasts.

Luckily, they have Ted Danson fighting for them. He said:

Tags: blasting, dolphins, drilling, obama administration, ocean, oil, president, president obama, ted danson, whales

WooHoo!! We LOVE the Earth!!

Simulating the way leaves harness the energy of the sun, scientists have a discovered a way to use "artificial leaf technology" to possibly powers ships and planes…. and even cars!!!

According to Professor Richard Cogdell:

What you need is to be able to lock that energy up in some sort of storage fluid that’s available on demand, and that’s what fuel is. To really sustain our way of life after the oil runs out we have to be able to make, renewably and sustainably, dense portable fuels for transport, especially for aeroplanes and ships. We’re looking at photosynthesis to see whether we can learn to copy it in a more robust and efficient way. What we’ve realised in just the last couple of months is that we should be able to use electricity to power these reactions. I would be very disappointed if this wasn’t working in the real world in 30 years time.

Uhm, ya!!

We'd be totes disappointed too!!

Oil is soooo last century!! Time to be smart about the way we use our energy!!!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: artificial leaf technology, cars, energy, fuel, oil, planes, power, richard cogdel, ships, sun

About 18 oil executives from companies including BP, Shell and Statoil were tricked into watching a 15-minute power-point presentation about environmental concerns over drilling in Greenland.

Several Greenpeace activists dressed up in suits and went to an actual seminar hosted by Greenland’s Raw Materials Directorate, at Nordatlantens Brygge in Copenhagen.

The undercover activists waited in the elevator until the businessmen arrived and then told them that the meeting had moved to a different room.

A room that was

Tags: ambush, big oil, bp, executives, greenland, greenpeace, meeting, oil, oil execs, shell, statoil

Victoria Principal fears offshore drilling oil spills just as much as most other people.

But she's really doing something about it.

She's apparently been making "extremely generous six-figure donations" to two organizations that lobby against offshore oil drilling.

She said:

Tags: donation, funds, money, offshore drilling, oil, oil spills, pays, victoria principal

Some of the world's direst oil (the same oil the recently denied Keystone XL Pipeline would have brought) is in the Alberta tar sands.

To bring this oil over land to reach refineries would threaten the Spirit Bear, a gorgeous and rare bear species.

Check out the above video to hear Kevin Bacon explain how the Spirit Bear could be threatened by this dirty oil.

Tags: alberta, bear, british columbia, canada, kevin bacon, oil, pipeline, spirit bear

Xena Lucy Lawless is urging people to sign a petition to fight deep sea oil drilling off the coast of New Zealand, her native land.

The petition already has 100,000 signatures. Though more could never hurt.

She said:

Tags: drilling, lucy lawless, new zealand, oil, petition, xena

Robert Redford has recorded a thank you message to President Obama.

Obama denied the Keystone XL Pipeline, an oil line though would have brought crude from Canada to Texas refineries and kept us hooked on expendable fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.

And Obama has kept his promise to take steps toward moving our nation to renewable energy.

Check out the above video to see Robert Redford's thank you.

Tags: canada, keystone xl pipeline, oil, pipeline, president obama, refineries, robert redford, texas