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HMS Ocean completes intensive sea acceptance trials and training
2014-08-06 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The UK Royal Navys amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean (L12) has successfully completed intensive sea acceptance trials and training.
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Centricas subsidiary acquires stake in UK East Irish Sea licence
2014-08-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Hydrocarbon Resources, a subsidiary of Centrica, has acquired a 45% interest in the UK East Irish Sea Blocks 113/26b and 113/27c (licence P.1482) from Serica Energy.
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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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Deep sea: Our reliance on & ignorance Earth's largest environment
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of Russ: The deep ocean is the single largest environment on the planet, and yet we know relatively little about it. A new study aims to raise awareness about how reliant we are on the deep sea - for everything from fish to oil and metals. VoR's Brendan Cole spoke to Dr. Bhavani Narayanaswamy one of the study's authors, from the Scottish Association for Marine Science. The study, published in the Biogeosciences journal brings together chunks of previous research to offer a more coherent account of our...
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No record, but Arctic sea ice will be among 10 lowest
2014-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean at the end of the summer season likely won't surpass the record low of 2012, but 2014 will still likely rank as one of the lowest minimum extents (or areas) in the record books. Arctic sea ice extent for July 15, 2014 was 3.22 million square miles. The orange line shows the 1981 to 2010 average extent for that month. That's according to Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "It's likely that it...
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