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Japan government: Fukushima plant leaking 300 tons/day of contaminated water into sea
2013-08-07 09:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese government official said an estimated 300 tonnes of contaminated water is leaking into the ocean each day from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Wednesday to step up government efforts to stem radioactive water leakage. Abe ordered the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to urgently deal with the water situation and ensure the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, takes appropriate action to deal with the cleanup, which is expected...
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As Antarctic sea ice melts, seaweed smothers seafloor
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: Seaweed could smother polar underwater ecosystems as melting sea ice exposes the seafloor to more sunlight, new research shows. Animals that dwell on the seafloor of the Arctic and Antarctic spend most of their lives in total darkness: Sea ice blocks rays during the spring and early summer, and the sun sets completely in the winter. Late summer and early fall when the ocean warms up enough to thaw the ice often marks the only time these critters see light. But as climate change causes sea ice...
Russias second Buyan-class corvette to undergo sea trials this month
2013-08-06 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Russia Navy's Caspian Flotilla will conduct sea trials of its second Project 21631 Almaz shipbuilding Buyan-class corvette, Uglich, in late August, Russia's southern military district has announced.
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GE to offer control valve technology for Hejre platform in North Sea
2013-08-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
GE announced that its control valve technology has been selected by Technip for an offshore production platform in the Hejre oil and gas field, located in the Danish North Sea.
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Young harp seals in the North Atlantic at risk from melting sea ice
2013-08-05 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Shrinking sea ice is bad news for the baby harp seal, according to researchers from Duke University in the US. Pagophilus groenlandicus relies on stable winter sea ice to provide a safe platform to give birth and nurse the young until the pups can swim, hunt and fend off predators. But the Duke team report in PLoS One, the Public Library of Science journal, that in four harp seal breeding regions of the North Atlantic, the winter ice had declined by 6% a decade since 1979. The researchers based...
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