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Shell to suspend Arctic offshore drilling program over safety fears
2013-02-27 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Shell shut down its 2013 drilling season in the Arctic waters off Alaska on Wednesday, after a series of mishaps and mechanical failures. The oil company said in a statement it was putting its operations off the coast of Alaska on pause for 2013, but remained committed to drilling at a later stage. The decision raises further doubts about the future of drilling in the Arctic given Shell's difficult and costly first season of hunting for oil last year. The company spent eight years and $5bn to...
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With 2 Ships Out of Commission, Shell Suspends Arctic Drilling
2013-02-27 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: After a series of costly and embarrassing accidents in its efforts to drill exploratory wells off the north coast of Alaska last year, Royal Dutch Shell announced on Wednesday that it would not return to the Arctic in 2013. The companys two drill ships suffered serious accidents as they were leaving drilling sites in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas last fall and winter and are being sent to Asia for repairs. Shell acknowledged in a statement that the ships would not be fixed in time to drill during...
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Arctic thaw may be first in cascade of tipping points
2013-02-27 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: ONE climate domino has fallen, and it may start toppling others. A recent study outlined an interconnected web of climate tipping points, some of which make the next ones more likely. Now, an analysis of data from the last 23 years suggests we passed the first of these tipping points in 2007, when Arctic sea ice flipped into a new, less stable state. That may speed the world towards the next tipping point the thaw of a vast expanse of Siberian permafrost. When it comes to the consequences of climate...
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Veteran explorer stakes Russia's claim over the Arctic
2013-02-27 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov made his name in the Soviet Union with a daring rescue of an ice-bound ship, then won international fame for planting Russia's flag under the ice cap, angering governments with rival claims over the Arctic. Now at the age of 73, rather than folding away his maps, he is spearheading President Vladimir Putin's diplomatic push to secure more of the mineral-rich region. "We don't want anything that belongs to anybody else, but if we prove it's ours, give...
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A new look at the effects of climate change on the Arctic
2013-02-24 09:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: From March 1, 2007, to that same date the following year, nations from around the world and particularly the North came together for what was the third International Polar Year (IPY). As with the case in the two previous IPYs (the first in the 1870s and the second during the 1930s), it was a gathering of scientists and researchers who teamed up to learn more about the planets northern and southern extremes. This time, however, there was an added sense of urgency. Climate change, a global phenomenon,...
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