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Arctic oil on life support
2015-02-03 09:55:35| Green Car Congress
What the hell are they doing?: How Canadas anti-science leaders are wrecking the Arctic
2015-02-01 05:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: If you want to know what climate change looks like, turn your gaze north to the Arctic. There, you can see the sea ice beginning to disappear, storms gaining in intensity and entire villages preparing to pack up and leave as the land crumbles beneath their feet. Within the next 20 years, the Arctic Ocean will see ice-free summers; within the next 30, we`ll have lost two-thirds of the world`s polar bears. As Edward Struzik explains in "Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge," an engaging...
DSME selects GTT containment system for Yamal Trades Arctic LNGCs
2015-01-30 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT) has secured an order to provide its technology for five large Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be built for Yamal LNG subsidiary Yamal Trade.
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Shell Resumes Arctic Drilling But Cuts $15B from Global Investment
2015-01-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Royal Dutch Shell is reviving plans to drill for oil in the Arctic in a move likely to intensify its battle with environmentalists. The Anglo-Dutch giant's chief executive Ben van Beurden accepted that Arctic drilling "divides society", but said the world needs new sources of oil. Greenpeace said Shell was taking a "massive risk" in a "pristine" region. Shell also announced a $15bn (9.9bn) cut in global spending, and profit figures that disappointed investors. The cut in investment -...
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Erratic as normal: Arctic sea ice loss expected to be bumpy in the short term
2015-01-28 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Arctic sea ice extent plunged precipitously from 2001 to 2007, then barely budged between 2007 and 2013. Even in a warming world, researchers should expect such unusual periods of no change-and rapid change-at the world's northern reaches, according to a new paper. "Human-caused global warming is melting Arctic sea ice over the long term, but the Arctic is a variable place, said Jennifer Kay, a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado...
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