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• Judges reject Alaska offshore drilling plan
For example, studies relied on by the agency did not actually assess potential significance of underwater noise from drilling. The agency's attempt to rely on a monitoring program as a mitigation measure was "similarly ill-founded," judges wrote. As ...
• Europe also eyes resources in melting Arctic
... should "keep the right balance between the priority goal of preserving the environment and the need for sustainable use of natural resources." Danish officials are gathering scientific evidence to show that the Lomonosov Ridge, a 1,240-mile underwater ...
• America’s best aquariums
Coming face-to-face with sharks, wandering through oceanic gardens teeming with coral and watching stingrays glide beneath your feet may lead you to believe you’re underwater. But inside Chicago’s awe-inspiring Shed Aquarium, you can experience ...
• Could ‘energy islands’ power the future?
The clean power generated by an Energy Island could be transmitted to shore by underwater cables. Or it could be used to make hydrogen from water, and this hydrogen fuel could be shipped to the mainland in order to produce electricity in fuel cells. ...
• Geckos inspire a new breed of glue
Glue like the kind that mussels use to glom onto rocks has been combined with the stickiness seen in gecko feet to form a new adhesive dubbed geckel that could one day bind wounds closed and help robots climb walls underwater. Geckos are lizards with ...