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Atlantis awaits: Melting ice and rising water for coastal cities

2015-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Baltimore Sun: Our civilization is built on coastlines. Oceans were the first grocery stores, providing easy protein for early humans who learned to fish and gather shellfish and seaweed. Oceans were the first highways, enabling early exploration, commerce and migration. Oceans remain vital sources of food and trade, even as societies have grown and advanced. That's why three-fourths of the world's major cities are located on coasts. But despite their many blessings, the Earth's oceans are becoming a curse....

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April's top stories: DanTysks offshore facility, Atlantis signs Siemens deal

2015-05-05 01:00:00| Power Technology

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München have inaugurated the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind power facility in the German North Sea, and Atlantis Resources has acquired Marine Current Turbines from Siemens. Power-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from

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Atlantis Resources signs deal with Siemens to acquire Marine Current Turbines

2015-04-30 01:00:00| Power Technology

Tidal power generator Atlantis Resources has acquired Marine Current Turbines from Siemens in an all-stock deal to strengthen its position in tidal power generation.

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03.12: Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City

2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar

A few years ago, Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, made a strange discovery: everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind. Meet Me in Atlantis (Dutton) is Adams's enthralling account of his quest to solve one of history's greatest mysteries; a travelogue that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters; and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world.

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