Video of world’s largest beaver dam on Google Earth
photo by gainesp2003 (source: Flickr Creative Commons) Rachel Maddow shows off her Google Earth skills and zeros in on that gigantic beaver dam that is so big it is visible from space. The dam is...
View ArticleUS: The oil continues to flow
photo by Deepwater Horizon Response (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now estimated to be the largest in US history, at ’12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day’ according to...
View ArticleThe fascinating history behind spills and drills in the US
photo by dsearls (source: Flickr Creative Commons) The history of oil drilling and oil spilling in the United States is riddled with disasters, political decisions as reactions to those disasters and...
View ArticleRachel Maddow gives President Obama’s speech that should have been
Rachel Maddow for president? Yesterday on the Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel gave what she wishes to have been President Barack Obama’s speech regarding the gushing BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of...
View ArticleRachel Maddow on the Gulf’s future
photo by BP America (Flickr Creative Commons) Check out this clip from last night’s Rachel Maddow show on the situation in the Gulf of Mexico in light of BP’s successful capping of the oil well leak....
View ArticleFool me once: Rachel Maddow on credibility of govt info on Gulf oil spill
photo by BP America (Flickr Creative Commons) As estimates of the oil spilling from the busted well in the Gulf of Mexico shot up like a post-Perestroika stock market on an almost daily basis, so...
View ArticleRachel Maddow on BP’s unbelievably bad safety record
photo by NewsHour (Flickr Creative Commons) BP has agreed to pay $50.6m (€39.7m) in fines to US government’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for failing to rectify safety hazards...
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