News tagged with gas tanker
Russian gas tanker forges Arctic passage to China
A Russian gas tanker is this month making a historic voyage across the famed Northeast passage as receding ice opens up an elusive trade route from Asia to the West sought for centuries by explorers.
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Aug 25, 2010 |
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Fracking brings boom, fears to rural US
Underneath the ground in southwestern Pennsylvania, bedrock is put under explosive pressure to fracture and spill out its lucrative cache of natural gas.
Apr 22, 2012 |
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Study reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean
Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences utiliz ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Increase in Arctic shipping poses risk to marine mammals
A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development
The rapid, large scale coastal development underway in the Middle East must be better planned and managed to avoid aggravating already "severe" degradation and losses in the fragile marine ecosystems shared by eight Gulf ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history
One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Montana, Exxon Mobil split over river oil spill
(AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has decided Exxon Mobil and the state don't make good roommates after nearly a week of working together in close quarters to clean up an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude ...
Jul 09, 2011 |
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Russia bids to expand Arctic border to seek gas
Russia will submit a claim to the United Nations to expand its Arctic borders, a top official said Wednesday, as scientists embarked on a new expedition to prove its ownership of energy-rich territory.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Arctic countries seek cooperation as ice melts
Top diplomats from eight Arctic countries will meet Thursday to set down rules for opening the vast region to fishing, tourism, oil and mineral exploration as global warming melts the ice.
May 11, 2011 |
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Want to save fuel? Fly a kite, German inventor says
The blue-hulled vessel would slip by unnoticed on most seas if not for the white kite, high above her prow, towing her to what its creators hope will be a bright, wind-efficient future.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Experts say management failed in BP spill
Before a rapt audience in Science Center D on Tuesday night (Feb. 22), two experts in the science of well blowouts told an inside story about the worst oil spill disaster in United States history -- starting ...
Feb 24, 2011 |
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