US President Barack Obama's administration on Monday approved petroleum giant Shell's request to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic under certain conditions, despite opposition from environmental groups.
Environment
May 12, 2015
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Royal Dutch Shell wants to park two massive Arctic oil drilling rigs in Seattle's waterfront—but the petroleum giant will have to get around protesters in kayaks and a mayor determined to take on climate change.
Environment
May 7, 2015
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Researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have carried out the first detailed study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for formation of the brachiopod shell. Comparison with shell synthesis in other ...
Environment
Apr 30, 2015
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Attorneys for Royal Dutch Shell PLC presented testimony to a federal court judge Tuesday that the company needs safety zones around its Arctic drill fleet to prevent Greenpeace USA activists from endangering company workers ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2015
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Two groups petitioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday for an investigation of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and what the groups call misstatements in regulatory filings regarding the risk of a catastrophic oil ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with Lund University in Sweden has found that "bolder" snails from a local pond tended to have stronger, more protective shells than their meeker peers. In their paper published ...
Using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, palaeontologists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have been examining extinct marine creatures. Quantitative analyses provide new evidence that ammonites were able to swim using ...
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2015
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Nearly 30 ancient seashell species coloration patterns were revealed using ultraviolet (UV) light, according to a study published April 1, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jonathan Hendricks from San Jose State ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2015
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Researchers have fine-tuned a technique for coating gold nanorods with silica shells, allowing engineers to create large quantities of the nanorods and giving them more control over the thickness of the shell. Gold nanorods ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 18, 2015
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc and any oil drilling company that prospects in the Arctic Ocean must boost safety practices to prevent spills in the frigid and often hostile waters or mitigate the impact, U.S. regulators proposed Friday.
Environment
Feb 21, 2015
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