LiveScience: Shell Oil recently announced plans to resume drilling operations in the Arctic Ocean this summer. The company suffered a string of failures when it tried to drill there last year -- from having its emergency equipment "crushed like a beer can" in tests to grounding its drill rig in a winter storm. But these fiascoes haven't stopped Shell. The company is determined to gamble with pristine ocean waters once again.
Yet even as the oil giant draws up drilling plans, the Arctic continues to feel the...