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New Teaching Method Hones Students' Snap Decisions

Posted 08.20.2011

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In Santa Monica, Calif., one school is testing out a new method of learning that focuses more on gut decisions than guidelines. It's called "percept...

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"Go Diego Go" Takes on an Oil Spill

Levi Novey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ranger Rick, Dolphins, Humpback Whale, Kids' Television, Go Diego Go, Oil Cleanup, Children, Children's Television, Whales, Animals, Gulf Oil Spill, Television, Kids, Dora the Explorer, Skimming, Oil, National Wildlife Federation, Deepwater Horizon, Bottlenose Dolphins, Oceans, Nickelodeon, Wildlife, Environmental Education, Environmental Communication, Diego, Green News, BP Oil Spill, Green News
Levi Novey

I was happy to see the show bring up the issue of how animals are threatened by oil spills. But I also thought it was odd how the show made cleaning up a spill seem so easy.

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Doomed Pelicans: British Petroleum Neglecting Booms in Pelican Rookery

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Booms, River of Oil, Pelicans, Bp, Corexit, Toxic, Queen Bess Island, British Petroleum, Brown Pelican, Federal Regulations, Grand Terre Island, Oil Catastrophe, Louisiana, Booms, Skimming, Oil, Oil Sheen, Dispersants, Grand Isle, Wildlife Management, Gulf of Mexico, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

Photos of oil-soaked suffocating pelicans drifting in pools of oil from the British Petroleum oil disaster have become a heartbreaking symbol of the e...

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