News tagged with north sea
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Oil boom possible but time is running out
Oil recovery using carbon dioxide could lead to a North Sea oil bonanza worth £150 billion ($240 billion) – but only if the current infrastructure is enhanced now, according to a new study published ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 14, 2010 |
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UF researchers to document boating patterns; could aid endangered whales
One of the world's most endangered whale species makes its way south every winter to give birth in waters near northeast Florida and southeast Georgia. During that trip, North Atlantic right whales face two major threats: ...
Aug 30, 2010 |
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MERMAID opens prospect of cleaner seas with pollution early warning system
Marine Environmental Remote-controlled Measuring And Integrated Detection - an international team of scientists and engineers developed automatic sensors and analyzers, mounted on a network of radio-controlled ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2010 |
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Research reveals exotic Henslow Crabs in North Sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change has led to masses of bizarre swimming crabs to invade the North Sea - hundreds of miles from their usual home, new research has revealed.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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A cooler Pacific may have severely affected medieval Europe, North America
In the time before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a cooler central Pacific Ocean has been connected with drought conditions in Europe and North America that may be responsible for famines and the disappearance of cliff dwelling ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Germany's first offshore wind farm begins turning
The blades began turning at Germany's first offshore wind farm Tuesday, 45 kilometres (28 miles) off the coast in the North Sea, with 12 turbines producing energy for 50,000 households.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Arctic animals doing better, but not close to pole
(AP) -- The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing.
Mar 17, 2010 |
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German man saved on frozen sea by webcam spotter
(AP) -- Watch the sunset, save a life.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Jurassic 'burn-down' events and organic matter richness in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation
The sediments of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation were deposited during the Late Jurassic between around 160 and 145 million years ago, the age of the reptiles. They are the main oil source rock in the North ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Where do puffins go in the winter?
A recent increase in winter mortality in Atlantic puffins could be due to worsening conditions within the North Sea, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Marine Biology. The study used geolocation techno ...
Jan 08, 2010 |
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Dutch build more dunes against rising seas
On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Germany paves way to offshore wind farms
The German government on Wednesday agreed a plan to set aside special zones off its northern coast for a host of wind farms that could provide energy for more than eight million homes.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2009 |
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World's first floating wind turbine opens in Norway
The world's first floating full-scale offshore wind turbine has been inaugurated in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro said Tuesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 08, 2009 |
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The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.
Aug 27, 2009 |
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British explorers cut short trek to North Pole
(AP) -- British explorers in northern Canada to measure the thickness of floating Arctic sea ice ended their expedition short of reaching the North Pole due to an early summer ice melt, the team said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 14, 2009 |
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