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EPA will let frackers keep on dumping chemicals into the sea
2014-01-10 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Companies that frack the seafloor off the coast of Southern California have some new federal rules to worry about. Unfortunately, the new rules will still allow their fracking fluids to be unleashed into the sea - including chemicals that are known to stunt human development and hurt wildlife. The companies will just have to tell the government what they`re unleashing. Under new rules that will take effect March 1, the companies must report the "chemical formulation, concentrations and discharge...
Faced With Sea Ice Loss, Emperor Penguins Alter Breeding Tactics
2014-01-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Confronted with the loss of sea ice in some parts of Antarctica, four colonies of emperor penguins have come up with an innovative breeding strategy to adapt to their changing environment. Using satellite images, an international team of scientists tracked the four colonies from 2008 to 2012. In the first three years, the emperor penguins hatched and incubated eggs in their customary fashion atop the sea ice that freezes during the Antarctic winter and spring. But in 2011 and 2012, sea ice did...
United Kingdom: RWE slashes capacity at North Sea wind farm
2014-01-07 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: German utility RWE will reduce capacity at its planned Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the North Sea by up to half, it said on Monday, weeks after it scrapped another wind project in British waters. Triton Knoll's capacity is now expected to range between 600 and 900 megawatts (MW), instead of 1,200MW, RWE's renewable energy subsidiary Innogy said in a statement. Offshore wind farm developers have now largely finalised British site assessments and industry experts say that project capacity...
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Sea Shepherd chases Japanese whaling fleet from Antarctic sanctuary
2014-01-06 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian government has been urged to lodge a formal protest with Japan after activists said they chased the Japanese whaling fleet from a designated whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean. Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said three of its vessels chased Japanese boats from the area. Sea Shepherd also released video footage that appears to show the butchering of four minke whales on the deck of Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru. The Greens party said the prime minister, Tony Abbott, should...
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Lundin starts drilling 16/3-8S well in North Sea
2014-01-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil and gas exploration and production company Lundin Petroleum has commenced the drilling of appraisal well 16/3-8S on the Johan Sverdrup discovery located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
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