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United Kingdom: The high seas are too precious to be left to plunderers and polluters
2013-02-10 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The oceans are changing faster today and in more ways than at any time in human history. We are the cause. Which is why I welcome the launch of the Global Ocean Commission, dedicated to ending the neglect, in international affairs, of the high seas. These seas lie far beyond the horizon 200 nautical miles offshore to be precise and begin where sovereign national waters give way to the global commons, owned by none, shared by all. There was a time when foreign travel gave many people a familiarity...
Rising seas shift bay agency's mission
2013-01-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Leadership changes in regional agencies rarely attract attention, so it wasn't a big story last year when new people stepped into the top two posts at the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. But this is an era when the commission's original reason for being - to keep vast portions of San Francisco Bay from being filled by subdivisions and land-hungry local governments - is less of a threat than the rising sea levels that almost certainly lie ahead. This ecological shift demands a response,...
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Yokogawa Electric wins ICSS contract for North Sea's Cygnus field
2013-01-24 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Japan-based Yokogawa Electric said that its subsidiary Yokogawa Europe Solutions has secured a contract, from GDF SUEZ E&P UK, to deliver the integrated control and safety systems (ICSS) for the new Cygnus Development Project in the North Sea, UK.
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California falling short on rising seas
2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: On the night of Jan. 31, 1953, a hurricane descended on the northeast coast of the Netherlands, whipping up high spring tides into 18-foot surges. As dike after dike failed, floods washed over at least 600 square miles, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless and killing more than 1,800. The tragedy set off a decades-long campaign to ensure it never happened again, as the nation adopted an essentially zero-tolerance policy for mass flooding. They erected a closed system of levees built to withstand...
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Sweden's Lundin begins drilling of North Sea's Ogna prospect
2013-01-15 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Swedish independent oil and gas exploration company Lundin Petroleum has commenced drilling of exploration well 8/5-1 in PL453S to confirm the presence of hydrocarbons in the Upper to Middle Jurassic reservoirs.
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