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August 10, 2006

Fouling while Lebanon burns

Among the many other casualties of the current Israel-Hezbollah conflict is any effort to clean up the massive spill of fuel oil on the Lebanese coast, caused by an Israeli raid on a Lebanese power plant in July.

More than 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil have spilled into the Mediterranean -- a spill to rival the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill on the Alaskan coast.

A bit of background, and satellite images, can be found here.

April 8, 2005

I've seen this done in the movies, and it never ends well

They've apparently drilled all the way through the Earth's crust to the mantle.

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