Saturday, July 07, 2012

Another sign of the (heat) times: thousands of dead fish - U.S. News

In lakes and rivers across parched areas of the U.S., heat and lower water levels are reducing oxygen levels -- and killing fish populations by the thousands. 

Flashback: Deep freeze kills millions of fish in Florida

Protesters take 16-metre wind turbine blade to Tate Modern | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

The one and a half tonne blade, taken from a decommissioned wind turbine in Wales, was presented to Tate staff along with an official request for it to be made part of the gallery's permanent collection.

Liberate Tate spokeswoman Sharon Palmer said that "in a time of climate crisis" visitors to the gallery "should not be made to feel that they're legitimising" oil firms such as BP.

...BP's sponsorship of British arts institutions, including the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, is worth more than £1m a year. It first attracted protests after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Two months later, five gallons of molasses were poured down Tate Britain's stairs at its summer party. Demonstrators also released helium balloons with dead fish attached in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Gallery staff shot the balloons down with air rifles.

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