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Is Climate Change Increasing the Disease Risk for Arctic Marine Mammals?

2014-02-14 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Climate change is melting Arctic sea ice, leaving animals that depend on it high and dry. Marine mammals like ringed seals have to find new areas to give birth, raise their young, and haul out. And now, experts say, these animals must deal with another woeemerging diseases. Ice-free parts of the Arctic seem to be opening up new areas for more than just shipping companies. A new species of parasite, Sarcocystis pinnipedi, is on the move south, infecting gray seals and killing off as much as 20...

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Arctic Marine Mammals Act as Ecosystem Sentinels Amid Changing Climate

2014-02-14 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Polar bears, walruses, seals and other Arctic marine mammals act as ecosystem sentinels, according to a new study, which suggests that the behaviors of the animals can be used to provide clues about how the ecosystem is responding to a changing climate. The news was presented this week at the 2014 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. NOAA oceanographer Sue Moore presented the findings, highlighting how various Arctic marine mammals are responding to...

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Deep Oil in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale

2014-02-14 19:00:00| OGI

A lot can happen in a year, and in the Tuscaloosa Marine shale, which hosted a dozen completed, producing wells and a still-uncertain future a year ago, things are looking up. Producers are figuring out the geology (which includes a high clay content), operators are encouraged by favorable tax rates, takeaway infrastructure stands at the ready and the region offers Light Louisiana Sweet pricing discounted by just $2 for the short haul to pipe.

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Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Eliminates Major Barrier for Parasites in Marine Mammals

2014-02-14 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: The great Arctic thaw--up to 50 percent of sea ice by area and 75 percent by volume in the summer season--could be offering new opportunities for one of the planets most successful parasites. Toxoplasma gondii, an infection spread by almost all cat species, has been identified for the first time in the western Arctic Beluga whale. Toxoplasma is found almost everywhere that cats settle: domestic pets, ocelots, cougar, wild cats all carry and spread oocysts of the parasite (structures it uses to...

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Eni discovers gas at Marine XII block offshore Congo

2014-02-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

Italian oil and gas company Eni has discovered significant wet gas at Nene Marine 3 exploration well in the Marine XII block located about 17km offshore Congo.

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