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Sea eagle reintroduced to Isle of Mull - photo essay
2016-06-16 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The sea eagle, also known as the white-tailed eagle, was driven to extinction in Britain earlier this century. Now, thanks to a reintroduction programme by Scottish Natural Heritage and the RSPB, it has returned one of its former haunts, the Inner Hebrides island of Mull in Scotland.
Dutch firm TenneT to build offshore wind energy island in North Sea
2016-06-13 01:00:00| Power Technology
Dutch renewable energy firm TenneT has planned to build a man-made island in the North Sea to set up a large electricity system, which would serve as an interconnector for supplying offshore wind power across European Union (EU) countries.
Desalination Breakthrough: Saving the Sea from Salt
2016-06-12 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Farid Benyahia wants to solve two environmental problems at once: excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and excess salt in the Persian Gulf (aka the Arabian Gulf). Oil and natural gas drive the regions booming economieshence the excess CO2and desalination supplies the vast majority of drinking water, a process that creates concentrated brine waste that is usually dumped back into the gulf. Benyahia, a chemical engineer at Qatar University, thinks he may have hit on a neatly efficient way...
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Measuring What Exactly Will Be Destroyed As New York's Sea Levels Rise
2016-06-10 05:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Exist: Sea level rise won't just mean the coasts are a little closer. It will require wholesale redesigning of our current coastal cities. Sea levels along New York's coastline have risen about one foot since 1900. By the end of this century, they're predicted to rise another one to seven feet, according to a 2014 New York State report. You can see what that means for the city of New York in these visualizations, which come from Landscape Metrics, a young Brooklyn-based design firm. "Sea level...
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Lundin Norway secures permit to drill Barents Sea well
2016-06-10 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Lundin Norway has secured a permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill well 7220/11-3 AR in the Barents Sea.
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