oil

This is a touched up version of a cartoon I published for Independence Day 2008. Under the biker it used to say “… free from foreign oil.” I think the change to BP was fitting.
Same message though–DITCH YOUR CAR! RIDE YOUR BIKE!… Read the rest

A shot that is sure to make any lover of the ocean (or Earth itself) cringe. The caption from Daily Mail’s article reads: “Crude oil washes ashore in Orange Beach, Alabama, where swimming is banned.”
[Via: Daily Mail]
[Photo Via: Daily Mail]… Read the rest

The oil spill disaster continues with new numbers that show the amount of oil gushing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico may be double as much as previously thought. This means the crude is likely to travel farther away, threatening more birds, fish and other wildlife that live… Read the rest

“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – Winston Churchill
When it comes to oil spills, no one knows this better than Native Alaskans. Indigenous Arctic tribes learned their lesson during the Exxon Valdez debacle of 1989. In this edition of Assignment Earth, several leaders… Read the rest

This video came across my desk courtesy of the good folks over at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In it, a montage of beautifully shot but highly disturbing photographs from the Gulf oil spill are juxtaposed with quotes from BP CEO Tony Hayward. Click on the screen to learn how… Read the rest

Surfers at Pensacola Beach, FL aren’t letting the tar balls and tar patties strewn in the sand get in their way of their passion. In fact, they’re passing clean-up crews grappling with oil debris on the way to the water, boards in hand. “I’ve been out surfing the last two… Read the rest

Teva knows that water is the most precious of our natural resources, yet every day in the Gulf Region it is being more polluted. Teva has been active for more than 25 years thanks to the waterways around the world that have been explored and enjoyed. Their history and their… Read the rest

BP is currently dumping enormous amounts of potentially toxic dispersants on the growing oil spill. The dispersants (chock full of undisclosed ingredients) are surfactants that break oil down into small droplets that sink into the water.
Dirtying it down is not cleaning it up!… Read the rest

You’ve all heard the news: The human and environmental disaster that occurred on April 20 after the Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank continues to make headlines as the oil spill spreads from the Gulf of Mexico to the coastline. While the President and his administration focus on the political… Read the rest

Oil spills, obviously, are never good news for the ocean or its wildlife. Unfortunately, they happen… a little more frequently than they should. This weekend, a Chinese freighter carrying oil and coal crashed into the Australian Great Barrier Reef, otherwise known as “The King of Barrier Reefs.” As a result,… Read the rest