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Oil's $5 Trillion Permian Boom Threatened by $70 Crude: Energy
2013-10-25 18:08:08| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Bryan Sheffield, a third-generation oil wildcatter in Texas's Permian Basin, knows what he'll do if crude drops to $80 a barrel: shut down half his drilling rigs and go on a takeover hunt for weaker rivals.
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European Economic Stability Threatened By Renewable Energy Subsidies
2013-10-20 14:06:31| Energy - Topix.net
Germany is pursuing the construction of offshore wind farms in the North Sea, made profitable only by extensive subsidies that appear to be wreaking havoc on European energy markets.
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Australian scientists plan to relocate wildlife threatened by climate change
2013-10-17 02:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australian researchers have developed the "first rigorous framework' on how to relocate animals displaced due to climate change. The study, conducted by academics from four Australian universities and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), devised a formula on how to decide whether to relocate a species, which species to prioritise for reintroduction and where and how to move them. The work follows a request by the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
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Maine lobstermen threatened by climate change and Canada
2013-10-02 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Plenty is not normally a problem for those who harvest the seas; decks and holds full of fish generally gladden the hearts of fishermen everywhere. But for the lobstermen of the US state of Maine, the abundance of lobsters has turned into a headache. The catch is up six-fold in just over a decade as climate change warms the waters and encourages huge hauls. Yet the price the lobstermen receive for their crustacean catch has fallen steadily. The BBC spoke to two veterans about the impact...
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New prioritization for Brazil's threatened mammals
2013-09-30 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Scientists have applied a species prioritization scheme to Brazil's diverse mammals to deduce which species should become the focus of conservation efforts over the next few years in a new paper published in mongabay.com's open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Rather than solely relying on the risk of extinction to prioritize species, the scheme originally suggested by researchers at the Centro de Ecología for Venezuelan birds, but applied to Brazilian fauna by researchers at the...
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