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Dream Projects: Bering Strait Tunnel Possible With 'Existing Technology'
2014-11-11 18:56:50| ENR.com: Headline News
Proposed Bering Strait Tunnel would link Asia to North America.
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Forgotten plight Australia Torres Strait islanders: land is being swallowed by rising sea
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The islands which dot the sparkling waters of the Torres Strait, off the far north-east of Australia, were the birthplace of indigenous land rights. In 1992, five islanders led by Eddie Mabo won a landmark High Court case which erased the notion that Australia was unoccupied when the British arrived. But more than two decades on, the land for which they fought is being swallowed by the sea. The low-lying islands some of them closer to Papua New Guinea than the Australian mainland are at risk...
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Lakes Oil to buy Bass Strait stake in Australian exploration permits
2014-07-14 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Lakes Oil has agreed to acquire Bass Strait Oils PEP 167 and PEP 175 oil and gas exploration permits in the onshore Otway Basin in Victoria, Australia.
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Bass Strait wells under scrutiny after crude oil spill
2014-03-18 05:38:14| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Oil has washed up at Victoria's 90 Mile Beach, adjacent to the oil and gas poduction precinct in the Bass Strait.
As Climate Changes, More Whales Visit the Bearing Strait
2014-02-26 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As the climate changes and the Arctic landscape shifts, more and more whales and a greater number of whale species are being seen in the Bering Strait, according to a new three-year study. Researchers used underwater microphones to track whales by their sounds as they passed through the waters of the Bering Strait, revealing that as Arctic ice melts, the regions is seeing a growing number of whales, as well as ships. "It's not particularly surprising to those of us who work up in the Arctic,"...
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